Also, make sure your children are challenged – make sure they are bringing more and more rigorous work home.

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.