Jose Angel Gurria Quotes

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

If we’re going to be the world’s leader, we have to pick up the pace of American education, especially in math and science.

In the education debate, people are so passionate about their ideas that we often end up expending more energy shouting at each other than we do pushing for the fundamentals to success in all schools.

We need to reform our educational systems even though the Americans tell us to.

In raising the educational level of the country, the role of the Federal Government is extremely limited.

The Department of Education engages in fanciful rhetoric.

For many years we have spent a great deal of effort and money on school reform. Yet where are we today?

Common Core is a big win for education.

We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives.

When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.

Local school districts should be free to adapt their academic programs in ways appropriate for their community, but we cannot allow mindless budget shortfalls to force wrongheaded changes to our children's education.

Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.

I look forward to talking about how we can work together to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for all students while also refocusing the federal role in education.

We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis.

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.

I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

The most important problem that Turkey has is education.