Wendy Kopp Quotes

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable.

This nation suffers from three deficits—a trade deficit, a budget deficit, and an education deficit. I submit, that the trade and budget deficits will not be resolved until we overcome the education deficit.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.

Common Core is a big win for education.

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.