Children Quote by Leigh Gallagher

“only 28% of 12th graders in 2015 attended services once a week, down from 40% in 1976.”

— Jean M. Twenge

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students…

— Kenny Marchant

“children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then.”

— Lois Lowry

“THE TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION • American fifteen-year-olds rank thirty-fifth out of fifty-seven developed countries in math and literacy. • 30 percent of…

— Frank I. Luntz

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

— James T. Walsh

From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such…

— Richard Louv

Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.

— Zig Ziglar

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

“A New Majority Low Income Students Now a Majority In the Nation’s Public Schools January, 2015 Click”

— Terry Marselle

“Last year, millions of students didn’t graduate from high school. They didn’t drop out, they were simply in elementary and middle schools.”

— Jarod Kintz

Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.

— Betsy DeVos

“We had the schools we wanted, in a way. Parents did not tend to show up at schools demanding that their kids be assigned…

— Amanda Ripley