Quotes About Closing The Achievement Gap

#1. It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#2. I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

Margaret Spellings

#3. But if you instead ask, "Can I make a great pitch?" the research has found that you provide yourself something that reaches deeper and lasts longer

Daniel H. Pink

#4. To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.

Glenne Headly

#5. Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.

Anonymous

#6. Sometimes the enemy is just one person who will bring down a kingdom.

Mary E. Pearson

#7. I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.

Ray Stevens

#8. You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.

Geoff Ryman

#9. The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

Jimmy Webb

#10. Described the Internet as a series of intestines, laid out by a goatherd's son, spewing bile at both ends

Matt Ruff

#11. Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

Neal Shusterman

#12. What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

Aldous Huxley

#13. Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get it. Once they start to mingle with the collectors and learn that they are people who have achieved something who then expand into art, they change their minds.

Mark Kostabi

#14. The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

Gary Zukav

#15. When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.

Lao-Tzu

#16. Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Fran Lebowitz