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I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

~Eva Moskowitz

Topics: Believe Children Did Educating Human Potential

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I am from an F.D.R. liberal-Democratic family. With proximity to government, I have become more libertarian.

~Eva Moskowitz

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I want kids to be able to escape failing schools that trap them. And it's an unequal trapping of children. The most affluent find a way to escape. They move to a great suburban district or send their kid to a private school. The people who are trapped in the worst schools that have been terrible often for half a century? Those are the poorest kids.

~Eva Moskowitz

Topics: Able Affluent Been Century Children District Escape Failing Find Great Half Kid Kids Most Move Often People Poorest Private Private School School Schools Send Suburban Terrible Them Those Trap Trapped Unequal Want Way Who Worst

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Sometimes when kids look like they're daydreaming, it's because they are, and we can't allow that possibility.

~Eva Moskowitz

Topics: Allow Because Daydreaming Kids Like Look Possibility Sometimes

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Suspensions convey the critical message to students and parents that certain behavior is inconsistent with being a member of the school community. Pretend suspensions, in which a student is allowed to remain in the school community, do not convey that message.

~Eva Moskowitz

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It is very challenging to have a kind of data-driven, performance-oriented culture and to do progressive pedagogy. These things don't naturally, or easily, go together.

~Eva Moskowitz

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One of the biggest reasons that teachers have trouble with student-centered learning is that they have to give over a level of control to the kids. And, when you do that, you can have chaos, or you can have high levels of learning. Often, teachers are afraid of the chaos.

~Eva Moskowitz

Topics: Afraid Biggest Chaos Control Give High Kids Learning Level Levels Often Over Reasons Teachers Trouble You

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It's one thing to have a president with whose politics you disagree; it's another to have a president who doesn't even seem to care about your welfare.

~Eva Moskowitz

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I thought I was leaving elected office and politics in order to focus on schooling, but as you know, schooling turns out to be frankly even more political than politics.

~Eva Moskowitz

Topics: Elected Even Focus Frankly Know Leaving More Office Order Out Political Politics Schooling Than Thought Turns You

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I'm very, very focused on not only creating world class schools at scale, but changing the public policy in this country that every day prevents children from getting access to the American dream.

~Eva Moskowitz

Topics: Access American American Dream Changing Children Class Country Creating Day Dream Every Every Day Focused Getting Only Policy Prevents Public Public Policy Scale Schools Very World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: March 4th, 1964

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