A Postsecondary Education Is The Ticket To

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.

The Only Way We Get Better Is To Look In The Mirror, Assess Our Strengths And Weaknesses, And Figure Out Where We Need To Go. But If We Run Around Saying, We're Number One, We're Number One, And We're Not, That Doesn't Help Us Get Where We Need To Go.

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.

About Two-thirds Of Bachelor's Degree Holders Borrow To Go To School, And On Average They're Graduating With More Than $26,000 In Debt.

The Jobs Of The Future, As You Know So Well, Are Knowledge-based. You Need College-educated Folks To Do This Work. And So The Consequences For Our Country Are Absolutely Devastating If We Don't Start To Behave In Very Different Ways.