We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

We should test prudently; not profligately.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.