No One Is Mandating Merit Pay.

No One Is Mandating Merit Pay.

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.

I Believe That Education Is The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Generation. And If You Care About Promoting Opportunity And Reducing Inequality, The Classroom Is The Place To Start. Great Teaching Is About So Much More Than Education; It Is A Daily Fight For Social Justice.

If Children Are Hungry, They Need To Be Fed. It's Hard To Learn If Your Stomach Is Growling. We Need To Take That On. If Students Can't See The Blackboard, Need Eyeglasses, We Need To Do That. If Students Need A Social Worker Or Counselor To Work Through The Challenges They're Facing At Home In The Community, We Need To Do That.

A Postsecondary Education Is The Ticket To Economic Success In America.