Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

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.

What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top