"A lot of charter schools are non-union schools that take a lot of teachers from alternative tracks, like Teach For America. They do this in part because a lot of charter schools have very strong ideologies around how they want teachers to teach. And they find that starting with a younger or more inexperienced teacher allows them to more effectively inculcate those ideas."

-- Dana Goldstein

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“she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.”
“The quality of life is more important than life itself.”
“Oh the new album? You can just download it off Napster or Limewire.. I don't mind.”
“I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.”
“Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!”
“Ready? No one is ever ready, my boy. But some do what they plan to do and some never will. The difference between the two is that the first group understand that they need to start somewhere, so they do so. Straight away”
“The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.”
“Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.”

Source : James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”

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