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

The Factory Model Of Education Is The Wrong Model For The 21st Century. Today, Our Schools Must Prepare All Students For College And Careers-and Do Far More To Personalize Instruction And Employ The Smart Use Of Technology.

What You See Around The World Is That Poverty Is Not Destiny. In Other Countries, Much More Systemically, Student After Student, School After School, Year After Year, Educate Poor And Disadvantaged Young People. And, So, Anyone Who Says That You Can't Overcome These Battles Is A Huge Part Of The Problem.

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.

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.