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.

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

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

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

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