And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

If all you ever do is all you've ever done, then all you'll ever get is all you've ever got.