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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?