Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

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.

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

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

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

There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.