Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

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

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

Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.

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.

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

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top