Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

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

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.

Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.

When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.