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I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

~Donna Douglas

Topics: Appearances Church Colleges Conventions Different Done Groups Hats Little Lot Personal Schools Shows Speak Trade Youth

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We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty from around the world if we want to sustain our excellence.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Able American Around Attract Colleges Excellence Faculty International Marketplace Need Our Students Sustain Talent Universities Want World

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For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

~Ed Begley, Jr.

Topics: American Backbone Because Been Closely Colleges Community Decades Economy Influential Inherently Leaders Local Movement Needs Nimble Sustainable Training Workforce

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I went to Dunbar High School, recognized as the best high school of the segregated era. The education enabled students from Dunbar to attend the best colleges and universities in the country.

~Eleanor Holmes Norton

Topics: Attend Best Colleges Country Education Era High High School Recognized School Segregated Students Universities

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At Horace Mann High School in affluent Riverdale, New York, one of the top schools in the country, those who receive double time on tests are plentiful enough to qualify as their own segment of the student body. Known to their peers as 2Ts, they participate in the same activities, get the same grades, and attend the same range of colleges.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Activities Affluent Attend Body Colleges Country Double Enough Get Grades High High School Known New New York Own Participate Peers Plentiful Qualify Range Receive Same School Schools Segment Student Tests Those Time Top Who York

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Colleges accept the highest sub-scores from different administrations. So if a student takes the SAT many times instead of once, she has a larger pool of scores from which to pick out the highest math, critical reading, and writing.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Accept Administration Colleges Critical Different Highest Instead Larger Many Math Once Out Pick Pool Reading Sat Scores She Student Takes Times Which Writing

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We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: Able Align Area Back Colleges Costs Degrees Down Get Going Graduate Incentive Incentives Jobs Keep Loans Need Pay Students Those Time Where

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Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

~Emanuel Cleaver

Topics: Because College College Students Colleges Community Deal Going Got Graduating Heads Jobs Lot Need Real Students Technology Them Training

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When in college, I would hardly attend classes. In fact, we would go to other colleges and hang out there. Every six months, my friends and I would hit the roads and go to Goa. We weren't rich kids, and our trips were on shoestring budgets. But, we hardly cut down on the fun.

~Emraan Hashmi

Topics: Attend Budgets Classes College Colleges Cut Down Every Fact Friends Fun Go Hang Hardly Hit In Fact Kids Months Other Our Out Rich Roads Six Trips Were Would

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In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.

~Eric Liu

Topics: About Action Affirmative Affirmative Action Arguing Cal Colleges Duke End Feed Finite Ignoring In The End Like Pipeline Pool Princeton Selective Size While

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