One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest,….

Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine..

When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that ….

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations..

The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broad….

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and scienc….

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education..

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it me….

It's easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you're facing something that only your faith in God will get y….

Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student..

I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future..

One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I wa….

You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field for….

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure..

Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing….

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city whi….

There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second..

When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know,….

If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent..

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art..

Middle-class families know education begins at birth..