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

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

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.

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

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.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.