Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.