Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.

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

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of our system of education has spawned serious problems of educational quality.

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.

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top