Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Great teachers transcend ideology.