Achievement Quote by Margaret Spellings

The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

— Adam Davidson

You can't just abandon accountability measures in schools... Educators want that because otherwise they can't identify achievement-gap issues for students.

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, we must start with our youngest children.

— John Hickenlooper

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to…

— Margaret Spellings

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that…

— Dana Goldstein

I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe…

— Bill Vaughan

If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands…

— David Hood

Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.

— Narendra Modi

“As inequality has grown, as its negative consequences have become harder and harder to ignore, our response has been to put more and more…

— Christopher Hayes

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the…

— Tom Brokaw

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

— Michael Gove

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

— Eric Schlosser