We all have to have more rigorous expectations of our kids in America.

If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.

We all have to have more rigorous expectations of our kids in America.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

We need to identify the least effective or ineffective teachers and for those people we need to either quickly accelerate their practice or move them out of the profession. That's what I believe and quite frankly I have never met anybody at least to my face who said they disagree with that notion.

That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.