Mick Mulvaney Quotes

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

The single most important factor in determining [student] achievement is not the color of skin or where they come from. It is not who their parents are or how much money they have. It is who their teacher is.

We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages rigorous independent evaluations of our program. Our mission is too important to operate in any other way.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

Schools should be held accountable for results.

You can’t think how much anxiety pervades the country about the children’s education. I receive dozens of letters from schools and tutors every day about it.

I would like my kids to study well.

Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.

We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?

I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening if they don't have some control over their attention.

I know some of you don't care about food stamps, but I'm telling you if it feeds children, you do care about it.

You can't just abandon accountability measures in schools... Educators want that because otherwise they can't identify achievement-gap issues for students.

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

It is unconscionable for children in our prosperous country, or anywhere for that matter, to go without food. I implore everyone to contact their local and state representatives to encourage action to end hunger.

How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.

I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more hopeful place.

This isn't higher education studying itself.

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.