Why Sweeping Educational Reform That Involves More Testing Will Never Work

It’s relationships, not programs, that change children. A great program simply creates the environment for healthy relationships to form between adults and children. Young people thrive when adults care about them on a one-to-one level, and when they also have a sense of belonging to a caring community.

-- Bill Milliken
Founder and vice chairman of Communities in Schools, author of Tough Love and The Last Dropout.

(Discovered on the side of a coffee cup at Starbucks)