Arne Duncan Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'

  Arne Duncan

  Art, Believe, Carpe Diem

• I just think we can't do enough of this [student exchanges]... And when you get young children traveling internationally, I think they come back different people. And you can't put a price tag - you can't put a value on that.

  Arne Duncan

  Children, Thinking, Price Tag

• Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.

  Arne Duncan

  Children, Father, School

  "My Most Important Job" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

• 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.

• The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.

  Arne Duncan

  Smart, School, College

• Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

  Arne Duncan

  Country, Dad, Father

  "My Most Important Job" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

• 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

• This is a devastating problem, is, the longer our children are in school, the worse they do. Year after year after year, our children in America are falling further behind. Our 3- and 4-year-olds enter kindergarten OK, and they fall further and further behind. Each year, children in other countries are learning more than children in this country. And so the gap between American student performance in Singapore and Finland and South Korea and Canada and these other countries, the gap widens year after year after year.

  Arne Duncan

  Country, Children, Fall

• 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

• The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.

  Arne Duncan

  Art, College, Odds

• I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

  Arne Duncan

  Technology, Thinking, Important

• If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.

  Arne Duncan

  Country, Baby, School

• States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

  Arne Duncan

  Balance, Students, States

  "Campus Protests Should Remind Us All of College’s Value" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2010.

• Far too many of our children today, our students, need remedial education. We have been lying to them. They're not really ready for college. That's not higher education's fault. That's our fault K-12.

  Arne Duncan

  Children, Lying, College

• At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

  Arne Duncan

  Opportunity, College, Risk

• What you see around the world is that poverty is not destiny. In other countries, much more systemically, student after student, school after school, year after year, educate poor and disadvantaged young people. And, so, anyone who says that you can't overcome these battles is a huge part of the problem.

  Arne Duncan

  Country, School, Destiny

  "Interview with Education Secretary Arne Duncan". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 7, 2010.

• We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

  Arne Duncan

  Dream, School, College

  "Lower Student Loan Interest Rates" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

• 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

• Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

  Arne Duncan

  School, Marine, Cities

• If children are hungry, they need to be fed. It's hard to learn if your stomach is growling. We need to take that on. If students can't see the blackboard, need eyeglasses, we need to do that. If students need a social worker or counselor to work through the challenges they're facing at home in the community, we need to do that.

  Arne Duncan

  Children, Home, Community

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