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?

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

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

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

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

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