It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer..

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students..

I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work..

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart..

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college..

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough..

I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college..

When you give of yourself, it's draining..

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small perc….

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and….

Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy..

Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls t….

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans..