20th century Quote by Janet Napolitano

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

— Andy Hargreaves

It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But…

— Alvin Toffler

How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing…

— Geoffrey Canada

“many iGen students seem to see their schools as behind the times, irrelevant in a fast-paced world of constantly changing technology.”

— Jean M. Twenge

“The story of declining school quality across the twentieth century is, for the most part, a fable,” says social scientist Richard Rothstein, whose book…

— Alfie Kohn

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that…

— John Hume

School standards need to rise a lot further if the full potential of all our young people, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, is to…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

— Peter Drucker

Just when we should be getting ready for the 21st century, our education system is beginning to fall down in terms of preparing our…

— Leon Panetta

“Our current education system was created in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was modeled after the new factories of the industrial revolution.…

— Robert Epstein

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in…

— Janet Napolitano

As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka