"Ted tossed back a freshman's cap, snatched from the head of a luckless "stude" who must go all the way to Yorktown uncapped."
"And he talks about this high school, that's failed 40,000 its 60,000 stude nts, the way Erin Brockovich would talk about a factory that's polluting the drinking water of a local community."
"Education researchers face a big challenge: how to separate the results of charter schools' educational techniques from the quality and motivation of the stude nts themselves."