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…

- Dana Goldstein

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…

- Dana Goldstein

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…

- Dana Goldstein

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…

- Dana Goldstein

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

- Dana Goldstein

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

- Dana Goldstein

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…

- Dana Goldstein

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…

- Dana Goldstein

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…

- Dana Goldstein