"Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their critical thinking."

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Source : "No, Arne Duncan, ‘White Suburban Moms’ Aren’t The Problem. (But you might be)". thefederalist.com. November 19, 2013.

David Harsanyi

#Children Quotes #Math Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.”
“Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are small. You are young and far from your Death, September, so I seem as anything would seem if you saw it from a long way off-very small, very harmless. But I am always closer than I appear. As you grow, I shall grow with you, until at the end, I shall loom huge and dark over your bed, and you will shut your eyes so as not to see me.”
“It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.”

Source : Tadeusz Kantor (1993). “A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990”, p.114, Univ of California Press
“Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.”
“Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces".”
“Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.”
“Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.”
“The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.”

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