Chancellor again became sole anchor of Nightly News on October 10, 1979, with Brinkley once again providing commentaries until he left NBC for ABC News in 1981, where he became host of that network's new Sunday morning interview show This Week.
And in our schools, too often kids are given these kind of cardboard passages that are meant to show them what a noun is. Any teacher watching this knows what I’m talking about, that you, in elementary school, in many schools, especially the schools where that gun to the head is already cocked-in the poorest schools, in the schools that teach the most disadvantaged students, students of color, in schools in Harlem-you have to teach students how to take a test.
There’s nothing about-you know, I heard Jonathan Kozol speak at the Save Our Schools march, and he said something that really stayed with me. And the thing that gets me is that the, you know, wealthy individuals who promote these policies send their own kids to schools that look nothing like that, where inquiry is promoted, where they don’t spend all day obsessing about how they’re going to do on someone else’s test.