American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

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

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

The middle kids are the ones who are lost - they tend to be forgotten by federal policy. The mediocrity of which everyone complains is what [middle students] are most likely to suffer from, and without the push and the prod to achieve, they won't make it.

These stats are meaningless in the absence of a common test and common standards.

It's an interesting development, and I would hope that the chancellor would take heed.