The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.