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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6...

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about school

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

Quote by Hank Aaron about being

But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about commerce, value, beginning

The household saving rate has been falling since the early 1990s, declining from 7 percent in 1990 to just 2.4 percent in 2002.

Quote by Martin Feldstein

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100...

Quote by Quincy Jones about bad luck, bad

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Quote by Thomas Alva Edison about genius, inspiration

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

Quote by Jackie Mason about marriage, man

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Quote by Hank Aaron

Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

Quote by Joe Baca about children, heads

Everybody got interested in "How do I get mine?" Which motivates, I think, 99 percent of the opposition to the bill.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about motivation

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about celebrity, good, good luck

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

Quote by George W. Bush about education

I have been able to make yearly predictions which turned out to be 95 percent correct.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell

I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.

Quote by Geena Davis about parents, action, school, use

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

Quote by Geena Davis about americans, woman

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

Quote by Sean Connery about companies, heads

There's a spirit in Scotland which is rather sad because there's 20 million Scots in America, and possibly 25 to 30 percent of the Presidents of the United States are descended from Scots.

Quote by Sean Connery about spirit

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about marriage, society, idea, sex

Only 4 percent of adults say they will be satisfied if they never have children.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about children

AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about. The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine.

Quote by Bill Gates about ideal, things