Investing Quote by Miguel Cardona

More and more job fields require some form of higher education, and the pressure is on for schools to adequately prepare our students to…

— Mercedes Schlapp

There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

— James S. Coleman

To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce…

— Adam Davidson

I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers…

— Steven Levitt

“By picking a few winners, the Race to the Top competition abandoned the traditional idea of equality of educational opportunity, where federal aid favored…

— Diane Ravitch

Fixing our schools must begin with reforming the way we attract talent to teaching.

— Michael Bennet

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

— Bill Kurtis

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

One could argue that our national university system has become a de facto talent drain for much of the country. Many states and communities…

— Andrew Yang

Now in a lot of rural towns in Kentucky, the school system is the heartbeat of the community, not to mention one of the…

— Krystal Ball

As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.

— Robert Reich

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

— Anonymous