To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

It's about using social media for social change: creating a community of advocates who can use their voices on behalf of the voiceless, or leverage their talents, skills, knowledge, and resources to put more children into classrooms, or pressure their elected representatives to get global education top of the agenda.

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.