57 Quotes by Maggie Gallagher

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    Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

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    In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

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    The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

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    Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

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    Worse, legal approval of suicide amounts to a declaration to the old, sick and vulnerable that others consider their lives worthless.

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    I'd like to take this opportunity to again apologize to my readers for an oversight in not disclosing that I had done a small amount of work for the government in my specialty.

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