Jim Murphy Quotes
When you spend a year or two researching a subject, and you're still fascinated by it, that's a good indicator that what you're doing will appeal to others, as well.
Murphy, Jim. "Jim Murphy Interview Transcript." Scholastic, Scholastic Inc., 1998.
This high school is one of the better schools in the country with a terrific track record of graduation and college attendance with a mostly poor, minority population—especially boys. They have a very intensive, total time consuming curriculum focused on technology careers. The time on task is their most distinguishing feature. Students in such a school program actually spend up to 2 hours a day in active learning more than students in most high schools. This is one third more time that these students spend in active learning.
James Francis Murphy is a Scottish former politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2014 to 2015 and Secretary of State for Scotland from 2008 to 2010. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire, formerly Eastwood, from 1997 to 2015. He identifies as a social democrat and has expressed support for a foreign policy of Western interventionism. He has been described as being on the political right of the Labour Party.
