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It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.