Hill Harper Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Only Labour will provide the radical changes needed to create a free, fair and funded education system, which protects education as a right for the many, not a privilege for the few.

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.

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

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.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

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

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

I was on the board of Teach for America. And we transformed a failed public school system in the City of New Orleans, probably the most corrupted and failed system in the country.

I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.

I do believe ultimately the role is of our state government to ensure every child in this state has a great public school education.

No Child Left Behind left a lot of kids behind.

We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

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

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

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