Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.