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

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

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.

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

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

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?

Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.