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No Child Left Behind set arbitrary goals for education, Daniel Koretz says.

The free market could let career changers get into teaching faster and allow low-performing schools to fail like any business Tom Bloch says.

Tom Bloch says the ‘reform du jour’ concept should be resisted.

Tom Bloch sees great benefits for education if we can correct income disparities through more equitable taxation.

The gender gap in math and science flies in the face of what Tom Bloch has seen in his classroom.

Though the salary can’t compare to a CEO’s, the intangible benefits of teaching make the profession worth it.

Tom Bloch recalls receiving a $0.75 ceramic apple as his year-end bonus.

A pay incentive could work to get talented teachers in minority classrooms.

Funding will determine if any effort toward education reform is successful over the long term Tom Bloch says.

Tom Bloch says the attrition rate is high for educators who are just starting out in urban schools, but, if they show respect, they will receive respect.

Humans who can maintain the interior orientation and do not resign in the face of external challenges are the long-term survivors Laurence Gonzales writes in his first book.

Though it has its weaknesses, Teach for America is a vital opportunity to put passionate teachers into schools that need them.

The difference in the way teachers are treated overseas is striking, Tom Bloch says.

A morally-informed citizenry starts in the schools, Tom Bloch believes.

Tom Bloch observes that we are rapidly losing ground to overseas education systems.

Tom Bloch says charter schools provide a new level of choice for families.

Tom Bloch sees a major achievement gap between the haves and the have-nots in the US.

Incentivizing teachers through salaries is an avenue toward progress at Tom Bloch’s University Academy.

Tom Bloch needed a break from the all-consuming nature of being a CEO.

Tom Bloch summarizes the charter school he founded in Kansas City.

A culture based on the systematic disposal of potentially useful material items inspired Laurence Gonzales to ask some hard questions.

The universities where Laurence Gonzales has taught have replaced the rules of scholarship with the rules of business.

Citing TV as a primary example, Laurence Gonzales says there are simply not enough opportunities for thought.

Socrates would say any medium of inquiry is worthless if it’s making us shallower.

With technology, our gain in efficiency is another person’s loss in toxicity says Laurence Gonzales.

Laurence Gonzales says being aware of our behavioral patterns is the first step in noticing how we make mistakes.

Being more inefficient on purpose can bring the irrelevancy of our efficient behavior to light Laurence Gonzales notes.

Relying on a system of mental models can confuse associations with reality says Laurence Gonzales. .

Author Laurence Gonzales charts recent human de-evolution.

In his book, Laurence Gonzales goes from human behavior to the cosmos in an attempt to explain why smart people do stupid things.