Achievement Quote by Randi Weingarten

Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people,…

— Gretchen Whitmer

I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education is the…

— Amartya Sen

Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a…

— Bob Beckel

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

— Michelle Rhee

The fundamental problem is that the gap in educational achievement, which is a key in our technological economy, is due in my opinion -…

— Jerome Kagan

I think that education is a pathway out of poverty for many people. It was for our family.

— Blase J. Cupich

In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“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

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

— Azim Premji

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

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

— Anna Deavere Smith

90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

— Mark Shields