We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

We should test prudently; not profligately.

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.