Dehydration actually contributed to the conditions that both my parents developed.

I would ask that you think about setting aside a significant proportion of those funds, 15, 20, 30 percent for the training of teachers.

What do we know about the results, if anything? Do we know about which of these methods works best or what the advantages or disadvantages of them are?

the only bona fide expert on education in the Senate, as far as I know having run a school district, a very large school district himself.

Thank you for your longstanding support for Advanced Placement.

I am concerned, of course, that we are, apparently, cutting back on Federal support for AP.

Soon a bipartisan effort in the U.S. Congress, led by Senator Bingaman, authorized the Federal Advanced Placement Program.

This is a hearing of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and it is focused on, 'Effective Strategies for Accelerated Learning.'

Well, I think this has been useful testimony. I appreciate you all coming and participating. We will try to take what you said, and see if there is any good we can do with it around here.

Thank you very much.

I would like to propose one very specific thing as you reauthorize ESEA and you look at the title II, the current title II, for teacher training.

Thank you very much. Thank you all for your excellent testimony.

if dual credit can make it in New Mexico, it can make it anywhere.

Now, there is a pretty significant distinction between high school students taking courses, college-level courses in the high school that they are attending and high school students taking college-level courses at a school, a secondary…

All things being equal, if the United States increases its supply, will fuel prices at the pump go down for the American people?

So do you support keeping increased production in the United States and not exporting it?

There is a piece of legislation that would actually encourage natural gas use in 18-wheelers.

80 percent of convoys in Iraq and Afghanistan are for fuel and it is estimated that 46 convoys resulted in a casualty.