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

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

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

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.

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

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.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.