States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies and in decision-making.
In the Brown decision the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
A person like myself born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta Georgia to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education to go and earn a commission in the United States Army to serve for 22 years to lead men and women in combat.
Apartheid education rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.
A country like Belgium or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States which is a really puzzling thought.
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories from education to infrastructure.
I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
In large states public education will always be mediocre for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.