Jay Greene Quotations

Several of San Antonio area districts fare better than many other urban districts.

It is a mistake to treat the dropout problem as a fundamentally different kind of problem than other problems in our schools - it's a different symptom of the same disease.

It does give us a perspective that we didn't have, which is the perspective of the student who drops out.

Virtually all evidence produces controversy. If it matters, it produces controversy.

We have to collect more information and let a little more time pass.

To many employees, Vista, the Windows update, exemplifies the company's struggles. When the project was conceived half a decade ago, it was envisioned as a breakthrough: an operating system that would transform the way users store and retrieve information. But the more revolutionary features have been dropped, and Vista will arrive three years after researcher Gartner Inc. originally predicted that it would ship. Worse yet, they say, nobody has been held accountable. 'People look around and say: 'What are those clowns doing?'' says Adam Barr, a program manager in the Windows group.

They have a reasonably accurate picture of their own circumstance.

It's a fairly large difference, particularly when you consider that unlike differences across racial and ethnic groups, boys and girls are raised in the same households, so it's not so easy to explain the differences by their community, or their income level.

It's pretty bad. Large districts in general are doing less well and Los Angeles is toward the bottom of that list.