Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

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.

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.

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

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

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.