I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle. — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works. — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job. — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
The question is rarely asked, "Why is it that so few other Americans have these protections?" The question is more often asked,… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
In North Carolina, for example, it takes 15 years to move a teacher's salary from $30,000 to $40,000. So it's really difficult… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, like many of today’s reformers, Riis considered teachers the determining factor in whether a child escaped poverty. In his 1892 book… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
This is something that Randi Weingarten said to me when I interviewed her once, which I think I quote in chapter nine.… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
A lot of charter schools are non-union schools that take a lot of teachers from alternative tracks, like Teach For America. They… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
Definitely we see throughout history that American teachers are asked to be very self-abnegating. They're not supposed to be concerned with the… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
I think any sort of system that gives teachers more opportunities like teacher-led schools is a positive one that's going to lead… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
“In 1899 the Supreme Court ruled in Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education that Augusta, Georgia, had not defied the Constitution… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
In North Carolina, for example, it takes 15 years to move a teacher's salary from $30,000 to $40,000. So it's really difficult to argue… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together and actually… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
I wrote a work of history, I looked at over 500 sources - I spent three-and-a-half years on the project. I think the most… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works. I have… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look,… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
“In 1899 the Supreme Court ruled in Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education that Augusta, Georgia, had not defied the Constitution by shutting… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
Definitely we see throughout history that American teachers are asked to be very self-abnegating. They're not supposed to be concerned with the conditions of… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true believers in… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look,… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
If you're afraid to talk to the other adults in your school it is definitely throughout history the hallmark of a failing school. When… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share
