People understand more and more how critical it is to be well educated if you're going to thrive in the emerging economy.

The system actually has a lot of the tools it needs to accelerate student achievement. It's just a lot of them don't fit together well.

Wherever the powers that be set these bars, we're going to meet and exceed them.

It's not realistic that any superintendent could turn around some of these systems within two years.

Many boards are asking superintendents to be messiahs.

The news here for us is the progress, the trend line, the strong upward tilt of the numbers.