A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on...
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or...
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum...
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized...
No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains they're...
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist all of us who are given...
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest...
The primary victims of Katrina those who were given the least help by the...
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are we are...
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston there was a great deal of hope in...
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school far...
I feel in the end as if everything I've done has been a failure.
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of...
I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in...
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use...
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific...
Apartheid education rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even...
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than...
At that time I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace which many...
