#schools

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#change #governing #run #schools #won

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#before #break #came #continuing #determined

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#aims #clear #creating #department #descriptions

My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#already #autumn #been #department #during

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #city #complicity #enormous #none

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#certain point #certain way #design #how #life

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#deal #events #going #great #great deal

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#battlefield #bible #course #court #courts

I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#age #been #both #business #buy

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind. ↗

— Colin Powell

#ask #because #behind #children #giving