If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be participants in our popular democracy. A….

I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle..

Definitely we see throughout history that American teachers are asked to be very self-abnegating. They're not supposed to be concerned with the condi….

If you're afraid to talk to the other adults in your school it is definitely throughout history the hallmark of a failing school. When I was writing ….

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works..

Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look,….

I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only fe….

Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job..

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose o….

The question is rarely asked, "Why is it that so few other Americans have these protections?" The question is more often asked, "Why do teachers have….

I feel that people have asked me my age I don't actually think that thirty is particularly young for a first book to come out. And I sometimes wonder….

In North Carolina, for example, it takes 15 years to move a teacher's salary from $30,000 to $40,000. So it's really difficult to argue that pay does….

This is something that Randi Weingarten said to me when I interviewed her once, which I think I quote in chapter nine. She talks about how only 7 per….

I think any sort of system that gives teachers more opportunities like teacher-led schools is a positive one that's going to lead to better retention….

There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as pr….

[Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teach….

I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positiv….

Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job..

We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the Common Core. But the American ….

I wrote a work of history, I looked at over 500 sources - I spent three-and-a-half years on the project. I think the most gratifying and wonderful th….

Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth..