In the ideal classroom the teacher is either spending all of their time doing deep interventions with students on a one-on-one basis or facilitating true interactivity - labs simulations projects.

I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher like my parents. I failed - no I didn't fail a class I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history through the plays of the time. My God those were boring plays.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth success accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination by itself would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending the deficit the bailouts you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.

It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.