1960s Quote by Milton Friedman

Indeed, the share of teachers in a union has fallen to less than half, driven in part by older, unionized teachers retiring, the rise…

— Annie Lowrey

The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly…

— Steve Jobs

“The story of declining school quality across the twentieth century is, for the most part, a fable,” says social scientist Richard Rothstein, whose book…

— Alfie Kohn

The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend,…

— Juan Williams

We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich…

— Lily Eskelsen Garcia

“Nowhere was the complacency of the establishment, with its blind faith in progress, more evident than in its attitude toward an elite degree: as…

— George Packer

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of…

— Diane Ravitch

You have got to have two things in education reform. You have got to have some flexibility, so people can figure out what to…

— David Brooks

What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is going to…

— Dana Goldstein

Access to a quality education in our country is a civil right for all Americans young and old. But to ensure it for scores…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You don't see a positive culture, stability among teachers, or leadership. We don't focus enough in our policies on creating conditions to educating kids…

— Pedro Noguera