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.

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

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

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

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.

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.