School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.

I'd rather be respected than loved.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds and circumstances with the education and skills necessary to become knowledge workers. If we don't, we run the risk of creating an even larger gap between the middle class and the poor. This gap threatens our democracy, our society and the economic future of America.