I took my teaching responsibilities very seriously... I taught some great courses: Legal history to feminist theory, courses in American mass culture... I love teaching - I mean really love it.

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.

Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.

I believe Betsy DeVos has the talent, commitment, and leadership capacity to revitalize our public schools and deliver the promise of opportunity that excellent education provides, and I support her nomination as U.S. Secretary of Education.

What you get is what you see, which is suspending kids doesn't lead to high attrition rate. That is what the data shows.

I'm troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump's failure, because that is rooting for our own failure.