Ruben Hinojosa Quotes

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

If you spend your time trying to learn English, you fall behind in your course content… I know because when I came here I could not speak English. So that was the idea of Congress when we passed bi-lingual education. But that was to only go on for a short time—one and one half years. But many of the bi-lingual education programs of today go on for year after year and they are destructive because the primary objective is to learn English.

Latin America must follow the education model, that allows children to handle the English language from a very early age.

Bilingual education doesn’t work, and it has never worked.

As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.

Our schools face immense pressures caused by the different needs and languages of children from immigrant families, particularly in urban areas.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

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

If a child cannot speak English the first day at school, that child is not ready to learn.

This nation suffers from three deficits—a trade deficit, a budget deficit, and an education deficit. I submit, that the trade and budget deficits will not be resolved until we overcome the education deficit.

It is time to end social promotion in America’ s schools.

The abolition of the separate school system in the south raises serious practical problems.... We face the abolition of the public school system. Boldness is essential but wisdom is indispensable.

I'm a little bit tired of people getting credit for improving education by doing the cheapest thing they can do, which is to call for the manipulation of test scores or to create new standards.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

Ensuring preschool education for all and investing more in public schools is essential if the U.S. is to avoid becoming a neo-feudal country where advantages and disadvantages are passed on from one generation to the next.

Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent.

Common Core is a big win for education.