So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.
Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.
It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.
"So we'd get in a horse and buggy and we would go and park under a tree and we'd read poetry to each other. " And my grandfather told me all the stories. I mean, their way of communicating. . . They didn't have telephones, either, so they communicated with the written word. And I really. . . That's how old [Bill] Clinton has become to me [speaking of how he met Hillary Clinton].
Brunettes are full of electricity.