#segregation

"To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of 'otherness' and instead embrace 'togetherness'."

"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."

"Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation. But public education is not ‘broken.’ Public education is in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it."