Educational Improvement Quotes

It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

We know what works. What works are the very opportunities that advantaged families provide for their children.

Change the way we teach; Empower teachers

Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.

I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.

All the education programmes provided by our foundations are in pursuit of a common vision to upgrade education standards and quality of life.

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.

I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more hopeful place.

The children were singing beer commercials. If they could learn from beer commercials why can't they learn 1,2, 3 and more.

If we’re going to be the world’s leader, we have to pick up the pace of American education, especially in math and science.

I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.

I could do a thousand documentaries on poverty and poor people that would be watched by a handful of the convinced, but I was never really going to have an influence on my times -- (as I might if I develop Sesame Street).

Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.

The innovation and creativity that's so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.

We've invested in Newark's children, the schools and teachers, and these are long-term bets that need a number of years to really pan out. We've seen and learned how important it is to listen to the community and really get a sense of what they need and want. And it's a long journey.

By assessing the capabilities and knowledge of students in the highest-performing and most rapidly improving education systems, the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment provides valuable options for reform and information on how to achieve it.

The Expanded Learning Time program is a voluntary one - only districts and schools that want to apply are in the program and supported by the state to pursue their plans.

You know there's a problem [with the education system] when you realize that out of the three R’s, only one begins with an R.

If something can be proven to work, we should try it... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it.

I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly.

If you want some additional money for your school, we'll give it to you. But you've got to compete, show us that you're going to reform your education system so that our children are performing better.

Countries like Japan do not have to change their cultures to address their educational shortcomings; they simply have to adjust their policies and practices.