To perhaps confirm the teacher?s knowledge of that child?s learning already., so that, yes, we are going to work more on his numbers sense. We are going to work more on their grammar.

I think many people recognized that having the oldest kindergartners in the country is not a good thing. We know so much more about child development and brain research that we know the earlier we get them to school, the better.

What we've seen is, when you ask them to do more, they do.

The vast majority of parents work hard at making sure (their children) get an education. There are some people who aren't as responsible about it.

We really like the diagnostic part. We really think the ten-year plan offers us some opportunity. We don't think simply moving the test gains us any value.

People with a $120,000 job as a research scientist aren't going to be knocking down doors to make $28,000 a year as a teacher.

There will be extra costs.

We certainly know we need to do better, but this is a starting point.

One of the challenges is that when you get scores like that in the upper 80s or better, improving on that is increasingly difficult.