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

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

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.

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

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

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