Roy Romer Quotes

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

On K-12 education America has gone down, down, down compared to the other nations. It doesn't mean that we have gotten dumber. It just means that we have not advanced as fast in those areas as other nations have done, and we're way down right now.

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.

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

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

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.

We are in the middle of an education recession.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

We spend a lot of time training and retraining. It's heartbreaking because our education system has failed all of us. And again you go to China, even Mexico, Brazil the education systems are valued - ours are not in this country at K-12 level. It's amazing how that change has transpired in my lifetime.

It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.

Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.

My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.

So completely had learning decayed in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could apprehend their services in English or even translate a letter from Latin to English... There were so few of them that I cannot recollect a single one South of the Thames when I succeeded to the kingdom.

A memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer the to the higher.

The public education system works for children of families like mine but it does not work for the children of families who I represent …

Education is the civil rights issue of our era.

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

I know what the teachers got. I know what the politicians got. But I don’t know what the kids got/

We used to be the country with the highest percentage of college graduates. We are no more and the gap is widening.

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.

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

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.