America Quote by Millard Drexler

Want to know why American students' SAT scores are falling? We've kicked the light of the world out of the classroom.

— John Hagee

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick…

— George W. Bush

The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have…

— Jonathan Grayer

The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children…

— Eli Broad

“American attitudes toward teachers are frankly incoherent. We want outstanding people to enter the field but provide little incentive to do so. We expect…

— Mark Seidenberg

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

Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores…

— Virginia Postrel

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to…

— Raymond Chandler

I don't think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college…

— Angela Duckworth

We spend a lot of time training and retraining. It's heartbreaking because our education system has failed all of us. And again you go…

— Douglas R. Oberhelman

The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born…

— Paul Houston