"A good school is not necessarily the one that spends the most. A good teacher is not necessarily the one who has a master’s degree or has the most experience. We found there are big differences across schools and they are not closely related to our common ways of judging the quality of schools".

"It is not that somebody knows the current science, because the current science might be wrong, but it is that somebody knows how to learn about new science ... how to learn to do something they never thought about doing when they were in school. That is the key element".

• Personal Background
• The Coleman Report
• Comparing Effects
• The Economic Implications of Education Quality
• No Child Left Behind
• The Equity Implications of Quality
• Teacher Quality and Student Achievement
• Family Effects
• A Critical Window
• Reading
• Class Size
• Deeper into Teacher Quality
• Performance Based Teacher Incentives
• The Importance of Early Language Development
• Deeper into Reading
• Educational Spending
• Learned Learning Disabilities
• Back to the Costs of Unreadiness
• Preschool Programs
• The Uniquely Artificial Challenge of Learning to Read
• The Cost of Reading Failure
• More on the Quality of Teachers
• Closing: Huge Implications