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

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

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

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.