John Thompson

Award-winning historian and inner-city teacher

I have long been perplexed by the dilemma that test-driven "reform" created. Teachers cannot remain silent as our integrity is assailed and as corporate "reformers" follow their marketing plan and launch one outrageous attack on public schools after another.

Gordon MacInnes

President, New Jersey Policy Perspective

The immediate damage of the cap policy is harder to measure or see, but the longer-term loss is very great. New Jersey cannot continue to provide excellent local education without strong, adequately compensated leaders.

Julia Sass Rubin, Ph.D.

Associate professor, Rutgers University; Founding member, Save Our Schools NJ

How can an institution that claims to be academically objective put out a press release that is so misleading about the study's findings?

Joel Shatzky

English Professor

Without the minimal protection of tenure, the teaching profession will become even more unattractive to the very cohort of bright, young students that are so desperately needed in the future to educate our children.

Erin Schrode

Co-Founder, Teens Turning Green | Founder, The Schoolbag

The power of Cory Booker entered my life and quickly spread to family, friends, classmates, teachers, you name it. Everyone seemed to have the same response upon discovering this new breed of political force... this guy is the real deal.

John H. Jackson

President and CEO, The Schott Foundation for Public Education

We all know that factors related to poverty can limit learning in a number of ways. It's time to take apply the "no excuses" doctrine to systems reforms.

John Jackson

Co-Author, Small Acts of Resistance

We all know that factors related to poverty can limit learning in a number of ways. It's time to take apply the "no excuses" doctrine to systems reforms.

Pedro Noguera

Professor, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

American policy makers and reformers must be willing to accept the obvious: School reform efforts can't ignore the effects of poverty on children's lives or on the performance of schools.

Ashley Garcia and Ammaarah Khan

Student

Two high school seniors from opposite ends of the country have one very important interest in common: They are counting down the days to cast their first ballots.

John W. Whitehead

Attorney, President of The Rutherford Institute, and author of 'A Government of Wolves'

America is on a fast track to raising up an Orwellian generation--one populated by compliant citizens accustomed to living in a police state and who march in lockstep to the dictates of the government.