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

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

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