"Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people. I've even talked to people who didn't necessarily go into teaching thinking they wanted to work at a charter school or even may have been considered critics of the charter school movement, and found that it was the only way for them to get their foot in the door. So young people just have much more familiarity with the concept."

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Dana Goldstein

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“Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.”
“The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 598-600, Curiosities of Literature, Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity, 1922.
“But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.”
“When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.”

Source : "Women and History Part I: The Creation of Patriarchy with Gerda Lerner". Interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, www.intuitionnetwork.org.
“This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.”

Source : PGA Championship press conference, www.pga.com. August 15, 2003.
“I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.”

Source : Heidi Julavits (2004). “The Effect of Living Backwards”, p.260, Penguin
“But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.”
“With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.”

Source : "Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski on shedding the Spanx for noir in the new BLACK HOOD #1". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. January 28, 2015.

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