Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.

I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

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

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.