The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
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Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations.
You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.
We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.
As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.
Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.
Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.
We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.
We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt.