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

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.