An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.'That matters to kids, and it helps get them through.

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.

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.

Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.