Arne Duncan

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

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.

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.