The Cost Of College Should Never Discourage

At A Time When Going To College Has Never Been More Important, It's Never Been More Expensive, And Our Nation's Families Haven't Been In This Kind Of Financial Duress Since The Great Depression. And So What We Have Is Just Sort Of A Miraculous Opportunity Simply By Stopping The Subsidy To Banks When We Already Have The Risk Of Loans. We Can Plow Those Savings Into Our Students. And We Can Make College Dramatically More Affordable, Tens Of Billions Of Dollars Over The Next Decade.

Far Too Many Of Our Children Today, Our Students, Need Remedial Education. We Have Been Lying To Them. They're Not Really Ready For College. That's Not Higher Education's Fault. That's Our Fault K-12.

Teachers Say Their Schools Of Education Did Not Adequately Prepare Them For The Classroom. They Would Have Welcomed More Mentoring And Feedback In Their Early Years.

We've Seen More Reform In The Last Year Than We've Seen In Decades, And We Haven't Spent A Dime Yet. It's Staggering How The Recovery Act Is Driving Change.

Other Countries Have Outeducated Us. They Have Made This A Priority. And A Big Part Of What I'm Trying To Do, Frankly, Is Raise The Profile Of Education And Get America To Wake Up.