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Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'
Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.
I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.
The most important thing is to teach children to cook at schools. And not only to cook but to understand about where their food comes from.
We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.
Why English music is being taught in some schools? The government should make arrangements to promote Indian classical music among students.
The children of the world, what they want and what they need are health clinics and schools, not tanks or armed helicopters or fighter jets.
Democrats and all public servants just need to be honest. If we have schools that aren't working ... we need to face the facts and fix them.
Growing up in Sweden, musical education is something really special. There are music schools everywhere, and the education is very advanced.
I played hockey, as most girls who go to convent schools in Ireland do, as well as table tennis and badminton - all the rock 'n' roll sports.
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.
From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.
More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won't provide additional bread for our families, desks for our schools, or medicine for our clinics.
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.
Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.
I really think the single most important thing to remember about trying to fix the schools is that there is no such thing as an instant result.
All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for everybody.
Girls of color and young women need to be seen, heard, and valued. Schools can help make this happen by including our stories in the curriculum.
Bullying needs to have more attention, and there needs to be more open communication in schools to make kids feel comfortable enough to speak up.
We need walls around our schools, we need to protect our schools. Ten-foot rule. You can't get within ten feet unless you're supposed to be there.
Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.
To shape today's and tomorrow's 'future proof' worker, schools must teach specialized hard skills, such as the STEM skills that are in high demand.
I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.
For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.
Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.
Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work.
I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'
I think it's pretty well established that great schools are predicated on great faculty. That is not a Wisconsin market; that is a worldwide market.
I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.
Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.
Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
I'm really considering all the schools. It's not fair for me to only look at certain... programs just because they had players that are at my stature.
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
I am excited to return to city schools... and to continue doing the work to ensure that every child in Baltimore City receives a world-class education.
We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.
My son William is only nine but he's had four public schools so far, one in Cornwall, one when I was at Sheffield, one in Beckenham when I was at Palace.