Shirley Williams Quotes

If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

Education needs to be our state's top priority.

Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.

I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

We must revamp K-12 education law to ensure Washington does not stand in the way of meaningful reforms.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

The key for all cities is whether you turn the public schools around.

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

The problems of public schools will not be solved by cutting off the source of their funding, which is what vouchers are.

Competition has not worked in education because it has never really been tried.

Federal oversight has focused primarily on fiscal accountability and not on educational accountability.

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.

Education reforms must be the priority for governments.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might choose to attend with taxpayer dollars.

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.

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.