The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.
Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.
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.
If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.
1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.
Men are led by trifles.
I don't know what the word is in Austrian.