Occupation: New York State Senator Birth: June 28, 1936 Death: October 21, 2013
I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make….
People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation..
Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated..
He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host….
It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power..
Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That i….
I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially ….
The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the c….
People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run….
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people t….
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power..
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of i….
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do..
I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line..
I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the….
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to righ….
Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools..
We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to impr….
In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society….
We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere..
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline ….