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

I support charters, but the right kind of charters. I support charters that support kids who have the highest needs. A charter should be targeting students who are in serious trouble. It should serve students who didn't succeed in public schools when it can help them. Or, at least, charters should agree to accept similar proportions of the kids with the highest needs.

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

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

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.

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