By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability is simply attracting the best-educated most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
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...
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West so was my...
There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure and that's if we quit.
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because...
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot...
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
Ken Lay has does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of...
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his...