Quote by Christopher A. Lubienski

“We find aspects of the market model for education to actually impede the academic effectiveness of schools. Specifically, while reformers laud the operational autonomy…

— Christopher A. Lubienski

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to…

— John T. Walton

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance…

— Albert Shanker

I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.

— Charles Best

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We…

— Eli Broad

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

One of the big factors in me going to an independent school was the bullying at junior school. But it wasn't an easy choice…

— Alice Roberts

If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around…

— Barack Obama

We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were…

— Deborah Meier

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great…

— Tracy Kidder

If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an…

— Itay Talgam

Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you…

— Noam Chomsky