Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of our system of education has spawned serious problems of educational quality.

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top