George W. Bush Quotes

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

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.

Up until 3rd grade you are learning to read. After 3rd grade, you are reading to learn. if you aren’t … reading proficiently at the end of the 3rd grade, you are going to struggle throughout the rest of your school years.

I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the people of Alabama.

You can't improve what you can't measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R's, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.

The No Child Left Behind Act will be one of President Bush's enduring legacies. And it was engineered and inaugurated with a truly bipartisan coalition in Congress. Accountability, standards, and truly measuring student performance just makes sense. The only real debate about the law was and is whether or not it was adequately funded.

One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

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

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.'

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

Parents have a right to know whether their children are mastering the basics.

Schools should be held accountable for results.

We talk a good fight about wanting to have excellent schools when in fact we're content to have average ones.

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.