“I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.” SchoolAmericaBornCollegeHigh SchoolMovedFinishedNigeriaIndiana Author:Dayo Okeniyi
“Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.” YearsTodaySchoolAmericaEducationMillionsHigh SchoolAdultsPopulationFinishedQuartersMichigan Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial.” PeopleSometimesSchoolAmericaLinesWhitePoorIssuesEventsHigh SchoolFlowCrossesConfusedPoor PeopleComponentsBreakdownTransDropoutsSchool DropoutHigh School Dropout Author:David Brooks
“Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.” MenMadeTwoSchoolAmericaSongHigh SchoolSubversiveHairspray Author:John Waters
“America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.” KnowsNeedsMeanMadeTodaySchoolAmericaTeachCasesStudentsBrokenHigh SchoolFlawedObsolete Author:Bill Gates
“High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.” SchoolAmericaHigh SchoolMinoritiesOppressed Author:Jerry Rubin
“In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society.” IdeasWholeFactsSchoolAmericaCivilizationHigh SchoolVoteUniversalObstaclesIdealismRestorationMarxistNorth AmericaSuffrageSmackUniversal Suffrage Author:Fred Reed
“My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power that can change the conditions for America's young, so that young people upon graduating from high school who don't have economic means to go to college can realize other options beyond joining the military and fighting in wars that enrich corporations like Halliburton which should feel guilty about profiteering off of a war that is being fought on the backs of those locked out of America's mainstream economy.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsShouldMeanWarSchoolAmericaYoungPoliticalFightingRealizingEconomyEconomicConditionsMilitaryMovementCollegeHigh SchoolHip HopGuiltyHipsCorporationsHopsGraduatesMainstreamLockedTranslateJoiningPolitical PowerGraduating High SchoolJoining The Military Author:Bakari Kitwana
“America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.” ProblemKidsSchoolAmericaTerriblePercentHigh SchoolThirdsEducationalMinoritiesFinishingYoungstersFinishing School Author:Colin Powell
“Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High School of Science, which has produced more Nobel prize winners than any other high school in America.” StoriesSchoolAmericaNew YorkLuckyHigh SchoolWinnerPrizeGrandfatherMy GrandfatherNobelNobel PrizeBronxNobel Prize Winners Author:Lewis Schiff
“I've been in towns where there is no library, or where the library for the high school and the library for the town is one room, and it's smaller than my modest living room here. So you don't have many resources in 1950 or even 1970. This is the year, 2013, every town in America is connected to the web. Every town in America is therefore connected to all kinds of resources at the Library of Congress, at 100,000 websites.” YearsKindSchoolAmericaRoomsHigh SchoolResourcesTownsLibraryCongressConnectedAll KindsModestWebsiteLiving Room Author:James W. Loewen
“Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.” IfsChildrenGovernmentAbleSchoolAmericaBlackWhitePoorQualityImagineChildhoodCollegeHigh SchoolProgramUniversalSticksRateGenuineGraduatesLatinoHigh QualityGood EducationEarly ChildhoodGoing To CollegeGraduating High SchoolEarly Childhood Education Author:Barack Obama
“I'm a big lover of America. I love the people, but also the weird berms, the strange little high schools tucked away in different places, and just the whole geography and the psychological apparatus of Americans.” PeopleLittlesDifferentWholeBigsSchoolAmericaStrangeLoversHigh SchoolLogicalGeographyDifferent PlacePsycho Author:George Saunders
“Gone are the days in America where we're able to graduate from High School and perhaps eventually get a job that pays $100,000, that barrier has been put up. If you want to work at McDonald's, where is your degree?” IfsWantHas BeensAbleSchoolJobsAmericaPayGoneDegreesHigh SchoolBarriersGraduatesMcdonaldsGraduating High School Author:Jalen Rose
“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.” KnowsWantMindFirstsHeartRealitySchoolAmericaGamesTeamHigh SchoolBaseballTownsSmall TownHeart And Mind Author:Jacques Barzun
“They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.” SchoolAmericaStarsWhiteCoupleHigh SchoolFixedShiftingYoung LoveJulietFirmament Book:Carrie Source: Carrie
“Gotta have safety at our borders. We're a sovereign nation, gotta protect our borders. Make sure the workplace doesn't become a magnet for folks to be hired without the authorization. And then let's be realistic and sensible about how we approach all those folks who made America their home, established businesses, have children who have gone on to be valedictorians at their high school - and let's do these things in a very sensible way.” WayChildrenMadeHomeSchoolAmericaNationsGoneProtectApproachHigh SchoolSafetyFolksImmigrationBordersRealisticSensibleSovereignWorkplaceMagnetImmigration ReformValedictorians Author:Xavier Becerra
“It's amnesty that America can't afford. We have to stop people from coming in illegally. This will be a green light for anyone who wants to come to America illegally and then be granted citizenship one day... The majority that are here illegally are low-skilled or may not even have a high school diploma. The Republican Party is not going to compete over who can give more social programs out. They will become Democrats because of the social programs they'll depend on.” PeopleWantGivingMayLightSchoolAmericaSocialPartyDependsRepublicanOne DayLowsHigh SchoolProgramGreenMajorityDemocratImmigrationGrantedCitizenshipRepublican PartyImmigration ReformAmnestyDiplomaGreen LightsSocial ProgramsHigh School Diploma Author:Lou Barletta
“Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college.” IfsLongMatterProblemKidsActionSchoolAmericaTermRaceCollegeSolutionsPercentHigh SchoolAfrican AmericanLong TermDroppingLatinoAffirmative ActionAffirmativeRace In AmericaGoing To CollegeDropping Out Author:Barack Obama