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One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Contributing Educational Factors Most Opportunity Schools Significant Way

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One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Because Before Brooks Career Does Engineering Grant He Helps Him Hopes Might Poem Poetry Read See Seen Something Will World

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I've been a follower of Arsenal Football Club since I was ten years old.

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Topics: Arsenal Been Club Follower Football Old Since Ten Ten Years Years

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My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories are from summers when, with a ball under my foot and a jersey on my back, I watched the U.S. team go up against the world's best players in the largest sporting event on Earth.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Against Back Ball Best Childhood Closet Cups Earth Event Favorite Foot Go Jersey Largest Memories Nineties Players Some Sporting Event Summers Team Up Watched World

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'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness.

~Clint Smith

Topics: American Appeasement Candor Consciousness His History Like Much Over Political Talk Teachers Work

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'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the problems that shape our students' lives.

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Topics: Being Confront False Instead Lives Me Our Pretense Problems Reject Shape Should Students Talk Teacher Teachers Work

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School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.

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Topics: Associated Earnings Graduation Greater Higher Incarceration Rates School

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Living under the perpetual and pervasive threat of racism seems, for black men and black women, to quite literally reduce lifespans.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Black Literally Living Men Perpetual Pervasive Quite Racism Reduce Seems Threat Women

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Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Action Address Affirmative Affirmative Action Against Amends Communities Direct Exists Fail Federal Historical Inequality Make Marginalized Mechanism Members Policy Result Understood Until Which Will Wrongdoing

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People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.

~Clint Smith

Topics: About Believe Create Myths People Sort Themselves Want

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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