Quotes About Student Achievement

#1. It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

Harry Wong

#2. One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.

Tony Danza

#3. The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

Harry Wong

#4. We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.

Jeb Bush

#5. Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.

Rick Perry

#6. What's more, veteran teachers who work long-term in high-poverty schools with low test scores are actually more effective at raising student achievement than is the rotating cast of inexperienced teachers who try these jobs out but flee after one to three years.

Dana Goldstein

#7. Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

John Kline

#8. Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Bill Gates

#9. Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

James Heckman

#10. The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

Richard A. Clarke

#11. the quality of classroom practice that a child encounters has unmatched potential with respect to influencing student learning and achievement. What teachers are doing in classes with students on a daily basis has the greatest potential to influence the academic outcome for students,

Steven Katz

#12. Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.

Judith M Bardwick

#13. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Thucydides

#14. Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

Carol S. Dweck

#15. Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

J. D. Hayworth

#16. I think I understand what you mean, about there being good in all faiths. In all gods, in all beliefs. When I think about it . . . I guess I've just taken what bits and pieces I felt were right for me and made my own faith with them. Faith

Charlie N. Holmberg

#17. She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

Nawal El Saadawi

#18. Heard you missed me", he said, half turning and looking down at me. The smile on his lips broadened. "And that you're beating up the boys at school in protest to get me to come back. Couldn't let that happen.

C.L.Stone

#19. The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

James S. Coleman

#20. Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

Stephen Fry

#21. I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

Mark Hoppus

#22. I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

Felix Bloch

#23. Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.

James S. Coleman

#24. Tweaking your body , it's all about trying to make your physical self fit with who you are inside

Becky Chambers

#25. If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first.

Jon Osborne

#26. The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.

Tom T. Hall

#27. The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

Lillian B. Rubin