Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.