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

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.

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.

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.

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

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