Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.

If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.

Movies portray men as tough guys.

It's easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you're facing something that only your faith in God will get you through.

There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.