Charter Quote by 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 to argue…

— 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 and actually…

— 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 the most…

— Dana Goldstein

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

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

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

“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

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

— 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 conditions of…

— Dana Goldstein

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

— 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 school. When…

— Dana Goldstein

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