An education reformer is as important in America as the first lady.

We need to identify the least effective or ineffective teachers and for those people we need to either quickly accelerate their practice or move them out of the profession. That's what I believe and quite frankly I have never met anybody at least to my face who said they disagree with that notion.

That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.