We have met the enemy, and it is us.
We have had this massive effort on K-12 reform, raising standards, great teachers, great principals, turning around chronically failing schools, raising the bar, huge amount of progress. Let's continue that.
Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.
I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.
It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who - all of a sudden - their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary.
If children are hungry, they need to be fed. It's hard to learn if your stomach is growling. We need to take that on. If students can't see the blackboard, need eyeglasses, we need to do that. If students need a social worker or counselor to work through the challenges they're facing at home in the community, we need to do that.
Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.
When you’re the best fighter in the world today, they don’t call you a great fighter. They call you Chael Sonnen.
Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4.
Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.