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When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

The youth is the hope of our future.

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.

There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.