I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop. — 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
