American - Educator | March 4, 1964 -
I love working with teachers and principals; they are my heroes. They are very dedicated to children, and it's very impactful.
Eva Moskowitz
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I have always been very open about my respect for public service.
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I think it's fairly unique to define the end goal of K-12 schooling as helping students become better thinkers, more creative thinkers, and to organize the whole school around creative and critical thinking.
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Why doesn't anyone care that the schools in Harlem have been unsuccessful for half a century? Why is this not a big deal? To me, it's a terrible deal.
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What you get is what you see, which is suspending kids doesn't lead to high attrition rate. That is what the data shows.
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I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.
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I am from an F.D.R. liberal-Democratic family. With proximity to government, I have become more libertarian.
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I want kids to be able to escape failing schools that trap them. And it's an unequal trapping of children. The most affluent find a way to escape. They move to a great suburban district or send their kid to a private school. The people who are trapped in the worst schools that have been terrible often for half a century? Those are the poorest kids.
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Sometimes when kids look like they're daydreaming, it's because they are, and we can't allow that possibility.
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Suspensions convey the critical message to students and parents that certain behavior is inconsistent with being a member of the school community. Pretend suspensions, in which a student is allowed to remain in the school community, do not convey that message.
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It's one thing to have a president with whose politics you disagree; it's another to have a president who doesn't even seem to care about your welfare.
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I thought I was leaving elected office and politics in order to focus on schooling, but as you know, schooling turns out to be frankly even more political than politics.
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