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.

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

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

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.

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.