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

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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

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

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them

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

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?