Student Achievement Quotes

• 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

  Media, Achievement, Causes

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

  Harry Wong

  Teacher, Learning, Race

  Harry K. Wong, Rosemary Tripi Wong, Chelonnda Seroyer (2009). “The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher”, Harry K Wong Publication

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• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1951). “Commencement Addresses”

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• 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

  Teacher, Educational, School

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• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.142, Penguin

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

  Harry Wong

  Teacher, Learning, Achievement

  Harry K. Wong, Rosemary Tripi Wong, Chelonnda Seroyer (2009). “The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher”, Harry K Wong Publication

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• 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

  Teacher, Children, School

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• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• 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

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• 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

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• Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.

  Wendy Kopp

  Strong, School, Creating

  Source: www.economist.com

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

  Tony Danza

  Mother, Home, Achievement

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 19, 2012.

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• We are in tough economic times right now, and the first thing we have to do is look at how we're spending the dollars that we have, and at what kind of return on investment we're getting. Because I think it will show that spending more money without fixing the fundamental flaws in the system won't produce anything different in terms of results. In DC, we were spending a whole lot of money on things that had no positive impact on students' achievement levels.

  Michelle Rhee

  Thinking, Impact, Tough Economic Times

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to secede from the Union. Suppose Washington gave each parent even a $5,000 voucher - that wouldn't mean less money available per student. To the contrary, holding total education expenditures constant, it'd mean more money per student remaining in public schools.

  Walter E. Williams

  School, Mean, Achievement

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• One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the prejudice that would deny them a chance to even try. It is the same prejudice that insists all those destined for success must be cast from the same mold as those who have succeeded before them, a view that experience has already proven a fallacy.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Views, Achievement, Doubt

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• 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

  Education, Strong, School

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