Dana Goldstein

I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle.

— Dana Goldstein

Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job.

— Dana Goldstein

Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

— Dana Goldstein

Just to deliver one high-quality 45 minute lesson requires many hours of planning in advance.

— Dana Goldstein

We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the…

— Dana Goldstein

The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday…

— Dana Goldstein

I feel that people have asked me my age I don't actually think that thirty is particularly young for a first book…

— Dana Goldstein

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

Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools…

— Dana Goldstein

The question is rarely asked, "Why is it that so few other Americans have these protections?" The question is more often asked,…

— Dana Goldstein

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

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

I wrote a work of history, I looked at over 500 sources - I spent three-and-a-half years on the project. I think…

— Dana Goldstein

If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be…

— Dana Goldstein

If you're afraid to talk to the other adults in your school it is definitely throughout history the hallmark of a failing…

— Dana Goldstein

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

What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is…

— Dana Goldstein

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

The persistence of housing discrimination and housing segregation makes it difficult at times to integrate schools. So what flows from that is…

— Dana Goldstein

[Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and…

— Dana Goldstein

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

“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

This is something that Randi Weingarten said to me when I interviewed her once, which I think I quote in chapter nine.…

— Dana Goldstein

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

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

There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers…

— Dana Goldstein

Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools…

— Dana Goldstein

The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true…

— Dana Goldstein

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

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

Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms…

— Dana Goldstein

I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think…

— Dana Goldstein

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

There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers…

— Dana Goldstein

“In 1899 the Supreme Court ruled in Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education that Augusta, Georgia, had not defied the Constitution…

— Dana Goldstein