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

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

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

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

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

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.