State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for h….

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense..

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in th….

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America..

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching..

Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a commit….

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine bi….

Schools and districts and unions are working together on some really innovative things..

If children are hungry, they need to be fed. It's hard to learn if your stomach is growling. We need to take that on. If students can't see the black….

When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit pa….

Far too many of our children today, our students, need remedial education. We have been lying to them. They're not really ready for college. That's n….

At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of….

The jobs of the future, as you know so well, are knowledge-based. You need college-educated folks to do this work. And so the consequences for our co….

If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college pr….

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students..

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me th….

Other countries haves passed us by. They're outworking us. They're outcompeting us. We have got to wake up and we have got to start moving..

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree..

I just think we can't do enough of this [student exchanges]... And when you get young children traveling internationally, I think they come back diff….

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving ….

I think it's my job to tell the truth..