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Uber is hardly the first company to exploit the financial vulnerability of teachers - and the desperation of public schools more broadly - to score PR points. Amazon, Boeing, Bank of America, and other corporations have played the part of school benefactor, offering everything from reward programs to school supplies.
— Alissa Quart
Tags: reward, more, america, school

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In a lot of ways, I had a wonderful childhood.
— Alissa Quart
Tags: ways, had, wonderful, childhood
The list of costly services that supplement some children's public education is growing longer and now includes consultants, tutors, and test prep. That's in addition to the homework help some stay-at-home parents can afford to provide.
— Alissa Quart
Tags: homework, parents, children, education
In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is front and center.
— Alissa Quart
Tags: our, well, parents, past
We in America believe in starting over - and over and over.
— Alissa Quart
Tags: starting, over, america, believe
Our social fabric is sundered. GoFundMe and the other crowdfunding sites that have proliferated since 2010 are an example of what has sprung up in its place, what I have called America's dystopian social net. That is, we now require private solutions to what are public problems.
— Alissa Quart
Tags: our, place, america, problems
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