President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.