Wendy Kopp Quotes
Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
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Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.
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I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.
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In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face.
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I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.
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The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.
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Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.
