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.

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

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.

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.

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

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top