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“Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000.”

Ifs Millions Students Percent Twelve Balanced Smarter Triggers Restriction

Author:John Merrow

“A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.”

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Author:Bruce Molsky

“The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.”

Ifs Body Would Be Students Percent University Grades Asian Selected American Universities

Author:Paul Achleitner

“In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.”

Years Book Age Past Technology Students College Conversation Empathy Percent Arguing Vulnerable Digital Decline Digital Age College Students Markers

Author:Judy Woodruff

“Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce.”

Men Stills Reason Three Difficult Four Wife Rights Students Percent Female University Divorce Iran Offering Sixty Womens Rights Violation University Students

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.”

Men Students Percent Female University Educated Iran University Students

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“If you have credit card debt and credit card companies continue to close down the cards, what are you going to do? What are you going to do if they raise your interest rates to 32 percent? That's five times higher than what your kid is going to pay in interest on a student loan. Get rid of your credit card debt.”

Ifs Kids Interest Pay Company Five Students Higher Percent Raises Rate Credit Debt Cards Loan Credit Card Interest Rate Student Loan Credit Card Debt

Author:Suze Orman

“Remember that in most cases, student loan debt is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. So you continue to pay it off anyway. Those who have very low interest rates (2-2.5 percent) on student loans and know everything is secure, great.”

Knows Remember Interest Pay Cases Students Lows Percent Rate Debt Secure Loan Bankruptcy Interest Rate Student Loan

Author:Suze Orman

“If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.”

“Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent can't pay the health care if they get sick. Seventy-nine percent don't have enough money to live when they retire. So, already, we're having a whole generation that's coming on, not only here but also in Europe, that isn't able to get good-paying jobs.”

“It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.”

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Author:Patrick J. Kennedy

“People are hungry, and they're hurting and they're very, very worried about their children. Will their kids ever pay off their student debt? Will their kids ever get a decent-paying job? I think Democrats have got to be running a grass-roots campaign - mobilizing people and being prepared to take on the 1 percent with an agenda that speaks to the needs of ordinary workers.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham Lincoln as 'a kind of lobster.' That's right: more than three quarters of our nation's youth could not correctly identify the man who invented the telephone.”

Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

“One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).”