Alone Quote by Bob Beckel

Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers…

— Randi Weingarten

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of…

— Diane Ravitch

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

— Michelle Rhee

Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human…

— Bob Lutz

When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We…

— Michael Bloomberg

Often times, when we talk about improving our public schools, it is easy to come back to the question of money. Are schools basically…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young.…

— Winston Churchill

Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people,…

— Gretchen Whitmer

The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are…

— Thomas Sowell

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

— Azim Premji

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but…

— Milton Friedman

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

— Mark Jackson