Top 24 Quotes by Arne Duncan

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

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.

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.

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

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.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.

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

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.

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