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

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

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

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.

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

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

Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.