"Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement."

Source : Source: www.economist.com

Wendy Kopp

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“Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.”
“I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.”
“Just moving one keyboard or synth is a pain in the ass.”
“Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.”

Source : E. S. de Beer (ed.) 'The Diary of John Evelyn' (1955) vol. 3, p. 96 (10 May 1654)
“Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.”

Source : Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.304, Simon and Schuster
“I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.”
“Have character; don't be a character.”

Source : "Retired Jets and Dolphins QB, Chad Pennington Interview". Interview with Max Strauss, prointerviews.org. February 7, 2011.
“I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.”

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