Quotes about "Parenting in Digital Age"

I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities. ”

We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week. ”

Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs. ”

When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere. ”

Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs. ”

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be. ”

The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential. ”

We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy. ”

We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids. ”

We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools necessary to meet the needs of a very diverse group of kids which exists in every class. ”