Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time..

There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by socie….

When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a ….

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a bu….

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds..

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations..

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?.

Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice..

What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his life, regardless o….

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, a….

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.

Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simp….

I support charters, but the right kind of charters. I support charters that support kids who have the highest needs. A charter should be targeting st….

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department.

What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not diffe….

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education..

We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children..

The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their ….

Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be abl….

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of povert….

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers..