The jobs of the future, as you know so well, are knowledge-based. You need college-educated folks to do this work. And so the consequences for our country are absolutely devastating if we don't start to behave in very different ways.

Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

Far too many of our children today, our students, need remedial education. We have been lying to them. They're not really ready for college. That's not higher education's fault. That's our fault K-12.

When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners coming in during the non-school hours to support and do enrichment activities, social services, then those students will beat the odds, will beat poverty, will beat violence in the community, will beat sometimes dysfunctional families, and be productive citizens long term. They will go to college.