The Federal Government offers a program to fund teachers, the TEACH Grant program, and I'm concerned whether this program is actually helping support students who want to be teachers, or if it's just loading other students with a lot of…

If we can just take the data point another step, I think that Senator Alexander makes a powerfully important point.

We can provide leadership on developing deep partnerships with districts and schools, reformed general education courses and necessary relationships with community colleges, training mentor teachers, performance assessments for student…

The thing that makes teacher preparation so important is the very same thing that makes it so challenging: it is a high-stakes endeavor.

The central part, at least part of what we have to look at--there are other reasons we collect data.

I'm all for students having access to help to get through college and all for recruiting students into teaching.

I'm just concerned about how it's working out with this particular form of grant or so-called grant.

Surely, the removal of production uses from the market is a good first step.

The more we use an antibiotic, the less effective it becomes at fighting resistant infections.

Recently the FDA released two guidance documents, GFI #209 and #213, and a proposed rule for Veterinary Feed Directives.

I think it's a very good first step.

If we continue to use 30 million pounds of antibiotics in food animals every year, we're likely to have a lot more resistant infections.