No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.
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...
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...
We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as...
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the...
For me French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a...
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between...
Father in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin I will be a...
I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the...
When Honor's sun declines and Wealth takes wings Then Learning shines the...
Learning while at school that the charge for the education of girls was the...
Learning disabilities cannot be cured but they can be treated successfully...