Irwin Redlener Quotes

You can't expect kids who don't have enough to eat to do well.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?

A child miseducated is a child lost.

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.

There shall be no child in America, That has not been born under proper conditions; That does not live in hygienic surroundings; That ever suffers from under-nourishment; That does not have prompt and efficient medical attention.

Schools should be held accountable for results.

We cannot educate children who are not healthy, and we cannot have healthy children without education.

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

If my child were in a school where he was not learning, I would not wait for a gathering of social scientists to tell me whether it was okay for me to send him to another school.

Education has rules and parameters. Women outperform men when the parameters are clear.

School grades can help determine how well a principal or school leader is doing, and yeah, you need to have some way to evaluate schools.

Education seems to be placing increased emphasis on assessment and tracking, which means parents are terrified that if their kid doesn't exceed their expected learning level at six years old, they are immediately put in the class that ends up working at McDonald's.

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.

The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.

It's not fair that kids feel like they have to be naturally gifted at math and science, but with, it's often pushed to the side. It doesn't make any sense to me why it shouldn't be a big part of kids' lives.

I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.

I wasn't stupid, or very smart. I didn't finish my education.

I never had good grades until I dropped out of religion. And then suddenly, my grades went up.

They say Montenegrins are intelligent, and maybe that's why I was pretty good in school.