[Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.

The question is rarely asked, "Why is it that so few other Americans have these protections?" The question is more often asked, "Why do teachers have it so easy?"

I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.

There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.

I feel that people have asked me my age I don't actually think that thirty is particularly young for a first book to come out. And I sometimes wonder if a male author would have been asked this question so frequently.

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle.