I support charters, but the right kind of charters. I support charters that support kids who have the highest needs. A charter should be targeting students who are in serious trouble. It should serve students who didn't succeed in public schools when it can help them. Or, at least, charters should agree to accept similar proportions of the kids with the highest needs.

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

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

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

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them

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

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