Acknowledge Quote by Sandy Berger

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

School standards need to rise a lot further if the full potential of all our young people, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, is to…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

— Amy Klobuchar

The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

— Jon Appleton

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will…

— James S. Coleman

We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and…

— O. S. Hawkins

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

— Anonymous

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

— James S. Coleman

I look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to meet a…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning.…

— Tom Peters

It is important to engage students by focussing at what they wanted to do, rather than forcing them to do something.

— Sonam Wangchuk

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be…

— Jeb Bush