I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.

You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.

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

Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.