The best chance disabled students have for productive adult lives comes from being mainstreamed among other students. My daughter Jade is living proof of that. She has a disability, but we have made sure that she has gotten the same kind of exposure as other kids her age. There are a few exceptions; there are students whose special needs are such that mainstreaming won't work for them. But in the majority of cases, mainstreaming should be supported, encouraged, and facilitated for disabled students.

There's hardly a more effective way to solve the problems we face in our educational system than to reduce class size. A ratio of no more than 17 students per …

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they wil…

Develop high expectations.

If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New Engl…

We can only instill principles, put the student in the right path, give him method, teach him how to study, and early to discern between essentials and non-ess…

A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no other and had …