"In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Michelle Rhee

#School Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Parent Quotes

“I'm identifying with the underdog. And it makes totally sense to me.”
“If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.”

Source : "Filling Empty Bellies Is No Longer Enough". Department for International Development blog, dfid.blog.gov.uk. September 20, 2011.
“In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.”
“There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?”
“The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.”

Source : "Interview: White House’s Dan Pfeiffer on How Twitter Pressured Congress to Act on Debt Ceiling Bill". Interview with Shira Lazar, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.
“The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking”
“Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.”

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