Department Quote by Bob Inglis

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws…

— Bob Inglis

Overall, America's math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have risen since the 1990s though remain disappointing when compared to the…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government…

— Ronald Reagan

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

— Gunnar Myrdal

Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

America needs the best education system in the world. We have it in higher education. We do not have it in general education for…

— John Glenn

“Colleges and departments of education have developed in response to the need for preparing the tens of thousands of teachers required to staff our…

— Richard Weaver

The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

— Clark Kerr

There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students have to…

— Anya Kamenetz

It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science,…

— Safra A. Catz

Why do we need a federal Department of Education? Curriculum should be driven at the local level anyway.

— Todd Wilcox

I've been a strong supporter of the I-Corps program since it was first introduced by the NSF. I have helped it grow and have…

— Dan Lipinski