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But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.

Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front.

I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

I strongly believe that more money needs to be spent in the classroom.

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

Schooling is so important.