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

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

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

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

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.

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

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