"Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000."

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John Merrow

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“In some ways the most appalling thing of all, that Trump continues to question the fact of a very serious Russian attack on the core of our political system. I mean, I don't know how you get more reckless and dangerous than that. And you know, the president's first obligation is to defend the country. And in this respect, he doesn't seem to be interested in doing that.”
“Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.”

Source : "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies". Book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2014.
“I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.”
“Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I”
“I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.”

Source : "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his life wherein he had somehow gained a spouse who could not give a pig's foot for the latest dresses out of Paris but who whined about not owning an aethographic transmitter. Well, at least the two were comparable obsessions so far as expense was concerned.”
“Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can tell truth through fiction. And this idea also comes from nuclear physics.”
“It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.”

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