The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on...
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or...
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum...
No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains they're...
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist all of us who are given...
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest...
The primary victims of Katrina those who were given the least help by the...
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are we are...
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston there was a great deal of hope in...
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school far...
People look at me and they go 'You're white you're smart you must have...
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money...
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The...
Because I don't take money I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with...
I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought 'Geez...
The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed and...
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The...
I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my...