I have never encountered any children in any group who are not geniuses. There is no mystery on how to teach them. The first thing you do is treat them like human beings and the second thing you do is love them.

I am trying to paint a picture of hope. They have always been a teacher whether they realize it or not.

When you begin to do things that raise the achievement of the poorest and disenfranchised students, you may not always get applause. You need to be ready for that.

It's no mystery to doctors that the over-the-counter preparations may not do much for the cough but the guidelines are stating the fact that there are very few well-done scientific studies to support their use. That's not to say that some of these products may not be helpful for some people to some degree, but those studies just aren't out there.

Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.