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What Children Need Most

It's not better teachers, texts, or curricula that our children need most; it's better childhoods, and we will never see lasting school reform until we see parent reform.

—Samuel Sava, early childhood education advocate who helped in the development of Project Head Start and held several executive positions with education-related organizations

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