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Campbell Brown Quotes

The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans’ health.

– Campbell Brown

To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That’s not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that’s been implemented at their school that they don’t understand. It’s applying new teaching tools.

– Campbell Brown

The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

– Campbell Brown

Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.

– Campbell Brown

I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.

– Campbell Brown

What is happening with automation and globalization, that’s not going away.

– Campbell Brown

My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves – basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.

– Campbell Brown

TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.

– Campbell Brown

I don’t know if a government bailout will rescue America’s auto industry, but I do know that if there is a bailout, it better come with a big, bright stop sign and lots of strings attached.

– Campbell Brown

People say, ‘Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?’ It’s everybody. It’s the entire education establishment that is in power.

– Campbell Brown

When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.

– Campbell Brown

It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.

– Campbell Brown

Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep – as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.

– Campbell Brown

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

– Campbell Brown

When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it’s a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it’s a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, ‘Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,’ and not have to say, ‘Well, you decide.’ Then it would be like I’m an idiot.

– Campbell Brown

Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers’ union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

– Campbell Brown

I was born and raised in Louisiana – a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.

– Campbell Brown

Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

– Campbell Brown

Let’s just start with the word ‘diva.’ It is obviously a sexist slight – a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It’s usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

– Campbell Brown

In ‘The Founders,’ his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the ‘revolution’ these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, ‘the charter pushback campaigns.’

– Campbell Brown

There’s no reason why anyone’s job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.

– Campbell Brown

Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.

– Campbell Brown

Some women are smarter than men, and some aren’t. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.

– Campbell Brown

In a situation where it’s the child or the adult, I’m going with the child.

– Campbell Brown

The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.

– Campbell Brown

The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.

– Campbell Brown

By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers’ unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.

– Campbell Brown

My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, ‘I want to travel the world,’ and he said, ‘You’ll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.’

– Campbell Brown

I’m a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

– Campbell Brown

Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School’s teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.

– Campbell Brown

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