I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
More precious than our children are the children of our children.
Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements.
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.
The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.
…brotherhood of the firstborn, which can be both a blessing and a curse: the overwhelming attention to the detail of their lives and development. The expectations that run too high: being the bridge between adults and children, one foot in either p...
I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be t...
While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.
The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.
We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.
One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is not only acceptable but wonderful for Americans to be concerned, outraged, and active.
It was more than just material prosperity. America in 1960 was a country where restraint and boundaries were the natural conditions in all arenas. People married younger and stayed married; even with those added twenty-eight million, there were fewer...
Small children give you headache; big children heartache.
