I am in favor of saying, 'Okay, let's get teams of educators and experts in certain disciplines to say, 'What are the basic things that we think are an essential part of an early education for people?'' Put them together and create, as well as possible, a set of goals and tools to learn those things.

I used to read a lot of science fiction when I was younger.

One thing I cannot understand - and people are probably going to be upset about this - is why local school boards have control over educational content.

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