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.

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.

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

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

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.

Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?

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