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

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

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

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

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.

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.