Best Achievement Gap Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“If you woke before dawn one morning with the formula for a vaccine, which would cure the most ghastly disease currently known to man, releasing millions from an agonising death, would you roll over and resume sleeping until daylight?”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity to find an alternative way round. I have simply returned to where I came from, and told myself there had been no other choice.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“Finding happiness by delivering it.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“You’ve got to be driven to become successful.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“Any activity or effort directed toward the student's mind - influencing self-image, feelings, thoughts, consciousness, attention, decisions, and instincts - can be an incredible intervention in reversing underachievement.”

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Author:Asuni LadyZeal

“Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“We're going to Change the Culture with PBIS, Shift the Paradigm with PBL, and close the Achievement Gap with SDAIE. Sounds good, right? Well, that's usually the extent of it.”

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Book:Paradigm Shi*ted: You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried...

Source: Paradigm Shi*ted: You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried...

“Never settle for anything less than what you are capable of accomplishing.”

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Book:Think Great: Be Great!

Source: Think Great: Be Great!

“I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.”

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Author:Margaret Spellings

“I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.”

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Author:Margaret Spellings

“It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.”

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Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.”

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.”

“The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.”

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Author:Diane Ravitch

“If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.”

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Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.”

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Author:Margaret Spellings