President Obama Still Places Far Too Much

Pick Battles Big Enough To Matter, Small Enough To Win.

Apartheid Does Not Happen Spontaneously, Like Bad Weather Conditions.

In The Book, I Write About Children In First Grade Who Were Taught To Read By Reading Want Ads. They Learned To Write By Writing Job Applications. Imagine What Would Happen If Anyone Tried To Do That To Children In A Predominantly White Suburban School.

But For The Children Of The Poorest People We're Stripping The Curriculum, Removing The Arts And Music, And Drilling The Children Into Useful Labor. We're Not Valuing A Child For The Time In Which She Actually Is A Child.

I Went To Washington To Challenge The Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations