Academics Quote by Darell Hammond

What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching…

— Claire McCaskill

“No Child Left Behind has diminished [teachers'] sense of control of their own classroom, narrowed the focus of their jobs, and stifled pedagogical innovation.”

— James M. Lang

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because…

— William Torrey Harris

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

We live in a crazy time, and parents are very worried about their children's futures. They're getting all kinds of messages about children having…

— Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

— Ernest Dimnet

When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those…

— Donna Edwards

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that…

— Helen Keller

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind…

— John Kline

The No Child Left Behind Act will be one of President Bush's enduring legacies. And it was engineered and inaugurated with a truly bipartisan…

— Mark McKinnon

Too many of our children are being left behind, especially in our inner city schools.

— Damian Green