1960s Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

Too many high-school graduates are reflexively going to college as it is, without a clue what they are doing there or how to take…

— Heather Mac Donald

“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

“later start time high school graduation rates increased by more than 11 percent”

— Daniel H. Pink

“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

We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading…

— Barack Obama

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class.…

— Elizabeth Warren

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

— James T. Walsh

It is beyond my comprehension why today in America, hundreds of thousands of bright young people are unable to go to college - for…

— Bernie Sanders

I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich…

— Geoffrey Canada

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many…

— Bernie Sanders

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people…

— Bill Gates

The vast majority of students in this country will continue to attend public schools.

— Betsy DeVos