Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

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

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

. . . for a good story, told often enough puts you in rooms you've never occupied.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home.

There's really no way of ever knowing how the audience is going to respond to any episode or change.

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

I listen to a lot of twerk anthems.