I have advocated for a long time that we could do a much better job of oversight of Federal expenditures.

In my home State of North Carolina, the sticker price for 4-year public colleges has jumped 25 percent in the past 2 years alone.

I think we have had the best higher education in the world in this country.

We should continue to share best practices like these while also encouraging increased transparency in the reporting of annual college costs.

Over the past decade, the cost of attending college has increased dramatically.

I think that one of the big problems we have had in higher education... is having institutions of higher education decide what it is they want to do.

Most European countries and several Central and South American countries have much better administrative data sets than the United States.

I want to thank all of you for coming today. I have had a little experience in this area, and am very fascinated by the subject of research.

You train animals and you educate people.

I believe that most of what we do in education is designed for the adults and not the children.

We have known for a long time that adolescents do a very poor job early in the morning.