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Whether You Look At These Recent Pisa Results, Which We Are Mediocre At Best, Whether You Look At A 25 Percent Dropout Rate In This Country, Whether You Look At, In One Generation, We're Not Doing What We Need To Be Doing To Keep America Great.

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.

We All Have A Role To Play - The President, Congress, Parents, Students And Schools - In Making College Affordable And Keeping The Middle Class Dream Alive.

We Have Had This Massive Effort On K-12 Reform, Raising Standards, Great Teachers, Great Principals, Turning Around Chronically Failing Schools, Raising The Bar, Huge Amount Of Progress. Let's Continue That.

There's So Much That We're Doing Wrong Today. And Studies Show We're One Of Three Countries That Doesn't Invest More In Disadvantaged Communities.