I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
I grew up in New York City and in London.
I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.
I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up as drug dealers.
There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.
How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.
I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.
When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.
Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
I grew up in New York, and I grew up with a mother who was an arts lover herself, and I went to these New York City public schools with these great arts education programs, so it was something that I was lucky enough to be able to be exposed to very early.
I was born in New York, so I'd love to study at New York University.
We've seen more and more people opt for homeschooling, including in urban areas.
Federal, state and municipal policies have isolated many children, especially in urban districts, into schools that are segregated by race, class and income.
I returned to Pune in the 90s to do my MBA from the University of Pune as in that period there were not many MBA institutes in the city!
Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.
When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.
I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.
City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.
I am excited to return to city schools... and to continue doing the work to ensure that every child in Baltimore City receives a world-class education.
I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.
It take a certain type of man to teach, to be far from hood but to understand the streets.
When I went to prep school in New York City, I had to ride the subway and learned how to do homework on the train. I can work and read through anything.
