It's always dangerous to overinterpret what Donald Trump says at any one moment.

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.

The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.

It's hard for parents just to measure schools.

I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.