The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

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

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

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?

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

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

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.