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A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.

There has been a great challenge in improving educational achievement. It's a long-term issue, not a short-term one. It includes everything from getting more parents involved to addressing issues of poverty and improving what happens in the classroom.

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.