Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
Build an organization that can tackle the tough things and keep moving.
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.
Movies portray men as tough guys.
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.