Arne Duncan Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Great Teacher, Fingerprints

• Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Parent, Support

  "Ask the Teachers" by Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

• Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, School, Years

  "Ask the Teachers" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

• Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Educational, Teaching

  "Ask the Teachers" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

• To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Teaching, Salary

• When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Children, Differences

  "Ask the Teachers" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

• We have had this massive effort on K-12 reform, raising standards, great teachers, great principals, turning around chronically failing schools, raising the bar, huge amount of progress. Let's continue that.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, School, Effort

• We need to invest in very different ways. Get the students the support they need, get them the best principals, get them the great teachers, and I promise you those students would do extraordinarily well. I have seen it all my life.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Support, Promise

• When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners coming in during the non-school hours to support and do enrichment activities, social services, then those students will beat the odds, will beat poverty, will beat violence in the community, will beat sometimes dysfunctional families, and be productive citizens long term. They will go to college.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, School, College

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