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

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.

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

If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.