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Movies portray men as tough guys.
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Men
Guy
Tough
Portray
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Teachers need to be paid like professionals.
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Paid
Teachers
Professionals
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If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.
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Lousy
Fired
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We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.
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Gotta
Guarantee
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Middle-class families know education begins at birth.
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Birth
Class
Middle
Begins
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The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.
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Summer
Schools
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It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.
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Permanent
Spaces
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Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.
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Vacation
Monsters
Seven Days
Week
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When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.
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Art
Education
Teacher
Seeing
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It's just becoming more acceptable for girls to react violently.
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Acceptable
React
Violently
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If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.
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Children
Parent
Raises
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Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.
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Middle
Students
Teaching
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Build an organization that can tackle the tough things and keep moving.
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Moving
Organization
Tough
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There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.
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Cliffs
Educational
Walking
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Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
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Billions
Dollars
Tolerate
Abject
Billion
Dollar
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Lots of boys pick strong messages about who they are and who they want to be from the media.
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Messages
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There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.
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Psychology
Undergraduate
Background
Draw
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Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.
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Sports
Games
Messages
Video
Include
Video Games
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An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.
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Education
Ability
Administrators
Children
Giving
School
Well Rounded
Ensure
Extended
Gives
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Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a good student.
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Care
Dental
Good Your Care
Student
Hurts
Good Student
Tooth
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Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.
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America
Fine
Osama Bin Laden
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When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.
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Huge Numbers
Numbers
Poverty
Vow
Began
Eliminated
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I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.
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Children
Giving
Hero
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When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.
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Kids
Gangsters
Growing Up
Norm
Snitch
Cultural
Extended
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My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.
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Cancer
Clinging
Dying
Deeply
Nurtured
Slow
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The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.
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Rewards
Measured
Tendency
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Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
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Art
Children
Math
Physical Education
School
Subjects
Arts
Basic
English
Cover
Physical
Sacrificing
Schools
Studies
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You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.
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Creativity
Fields
Thinking
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It's easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you're facing something that only your faith in God will get you through.
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Have Faith
Real
Tests
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Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?
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Educational
Phones
Teaching
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I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.
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Spread
Churches
Main Focus
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You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in America have not come to grips with.
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Destroying
Black People America
Grips
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Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.
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Home
Absent
Father
Growing Up
Models
Role Models
Male
Fathers
Grow Up
Homes
Search
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Young people will tell you, if you're not prepared to write the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most horrible kinds of rhymes and scenarios, you are not going to get air play.
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Horrible
Prepared
Scenarios
Rhymes
Young People
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Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally.
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Development
Just One
Multiple
Obstacles
Poverty
Consider
Emotionally
Intellectually
One Or Two
Pathway
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People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street.
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Greed
Wall
Recipient
Wall Street
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Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.
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Incentives
Informed
Reduce
Stresses
Your Child
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Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.
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Children
Past
Years
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My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business when you cannot make any decision without going back to 200 pages worth of stuff.
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Manage
Pages
Teachers
Contract
Union
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When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.
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Education
Technology
Real
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How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?
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Lousy
Exactly The Same
Remain
Same Thing
Schools
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One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'
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Credibility
Ghetto
Sells
Streets
Urban
Meanest
Toughest
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One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.
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Artist
Ghetto
Urban
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You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, 'That is absolutely a lie.'
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Equal
Day One
Lie
Grow Up
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I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.
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Jobs
Kids
Boston
Graduate School
Harvard
School
Teaching
Graduate
Whites
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Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the ones who really are against change. They're the kind of person who, if you tell them it's raining outside, they'll fight you tooth and nail.
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Convincing
Nail
Neutralize
Raining
Tooth
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When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.'That matters to kids, and it helps get them through.
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Don't Give Up
Giving Up
Mother
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One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.
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Mom
Mother
Real
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In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options.
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After School
High Quality
Workplace
Entered
Fully
Households
Increasingly
Options
Schedule
Scramble
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People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.
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Faith
History
Circumstances
Folks
Hopelessness
Norm
Proven
Whole
Understand
Lose
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