You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.

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

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.

Build an organization that can tackle the tough things and keep moving.

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.

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.

Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.