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

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

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

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?

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.

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

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.