I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina..

No one is mandating merit pay..

There's so much that we're doing wrong today. And studies show we're one of three countries that doesn't invest more in disadvantaged communities..

This is a devastating problem, is, the longer our children are in school, the worse they do. Year after year after year, our children in America are ….

What you see around the world is that poverty is not destiny. In other countries, much more systemically, student after student, school after school,….

Whether you look at these recent PISA results, which we are mediocre at best, whether you look at a 25 percent dropout rate in this country, whether ….

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field..

We need to lengthen the school day. We need to lengthen the school year. Our calendar is based upon the agrarian economy. Children in India and China….

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 an….

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger..

I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classr….

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives..

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communitie….

City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education..

There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad..

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children..