Money Is Not The Reason That People

If The Goal Is To Dramatically Improve College Completion Rates, Not College-going Rates By Itself But College Completion, It's Not Just A College Problem. We Need A Big Focus On Early Childhood Education. Our Early Childhood Education System Is Pretty Good In This Country. Not Enough Students Have Opportunity. And, Very Discouragingly, They Lose Their Advantage Because They Go To Poor Schools After That. So, Let's Focus On Our Babies.

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.

The Arts Significantly Boost Student Achievement, Reduce Discipline Problems, And Increase The Odds Students Will Go On To Graduate From College. As First Lady Michelle Obama Sums Up, Both She And The President Believe 'strongly That Arts Education Is Essential For Building Innovative Thinkers Who Will Be Our Nation's Leaders For Tomorrow.'

I'm Just Absolutely Convinced We Have To Educate Our Way To A Better Economy. That's The Only Way We're Going To Get There. This Is The Best Long-term Investment We Can Make. And So I Think It's My Job To Be The Truth-teller.

I Worry When Athletes Are Simply Used By Their Universities To Produce Revenue, To Make Money For Them, Nothing To Show At The Back End. I Grew Up With A Lot Of Players Who Had Very, Very Tough Lives After The Ball Started Bouncing For Them. And That's Why I'm Going To Continue To Fight.