Campbell Brown Quotes

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

The government's most creative and significant duty is education.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

President Obama is highly concerned with education. He's a champion on early-childhood development strategies. So I like the work he's doing, and I support it, and I realise that he's one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

We talk nonstop about what needs to be changed, and everyone has excuses for why the changes can't happen. I believe we must change our educational system first to get the changes moving forward. I'm happy to be a voice and get in front of an audience who can help by making education a priority.

I believe Betsy DeVos has the talent, commitment, and leadership capacity to revitalize our public schools and deliver the promise of opportunity that excellent education provides, and I support her nomination as U.S. Secretary of Education.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.