How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

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.

The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming, . . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded 'the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world' . . . it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control.

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

The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices