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"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."
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"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."
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"Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind."
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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
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"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
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"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
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"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
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"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
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"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
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"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
Parents

"And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does."
Improvement

"We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about."
Achievement

"In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute."
Measure

"There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection."
Evaluate

"We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels."
People

"My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side."
Education

"It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college."
College

"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality."
Trust

"I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap."
Knowledge
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