Any City In America Would Like To

The Biggest Barrier We've Seen To Student Progress Is This: School Policies And Practices Often Prevent Good Teachers From Doing Great Work And Even Dissuade Some Talented Americans From Entering The Profession. This Needs To Change.

I Am Not A Patient Person. My Friends And Colleagues Will Confirm This. But, Frankly, We Should All Feel A Little More Impatient With The State Of Public Education In America Today.

If People Want To Criticize Me Because It Sells Papers, That's Fine. I Just Don't Like It When It's Inaccurate.

Philanthropy Is Activism.

I Am Old Enough To Remember When America's K-12 Public Schools Were The Best In The World. I Am A Proud Graduate Of Them, And I Credit Much Of My Success To What I Learned In Detroit Public Schools And At Michigan State University.