?Here in America, it's time we treated the people who educate our children with the same level of respect. We want to reward good teachers and stop making excuses for bad ones'' *
?Barack Obama, President of the United States
?State Of The Union 2011: Obama's Education Reform Agenda,? The Huffington Post
4%
The amount of black students proficient in high school level science
?Less than half of students proficient in science? The Ass0ciated Press
* This quote does not necessarily represent the views of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.