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took the press with him as he went to schools in inner cities that were graduating most of their students, enabling them to attain high ACT or SAT scores and helping them go on to college and successful careers.
It takes thoughtful, disciplined and loving teachers and principals who treat each student as special even as they expect and enforce good behavior and academic achievement.spoke and wrote, drawing attention to what works in education. He placed great emphasis on empowering teachers and parents and on all of us urging students to take challenging classes and do their homework.
In the mid-1980s, states enacted some 3,000 separate school reform measures. Most of these involved new curricular and achievement standards within the work of the “excellence movement.” The Bennett revolution had a deep impact. In 1982, only 13% of American public high school graduates had taken four years of English and three years each of math, science and social studies. By 1987, 29% were doing so.has always had a simple message: Adults should teach children how to read, speak, write, compute, reason, analyze, comprehend, and solve problems.
“What determines a young person’s behavior are his deeply held convictions and beliefs. Nature abhors a vacuum; so does a child’s soul. If that soul is not filled with noble sentiments, with virtue, if we do not attend to the ‘better angels of our nature,’ it will be filled with something else.”
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