American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

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

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

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

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

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.