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

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

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

In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.

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

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.

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