American high-school graduates should be expected to be literate. There is a need to come to an understanding of what literacy is, what its fundamental relationship to education is, and what the responsibilities are to teach it. (MLW)

Adding more funds to American education will not accomplish the needed reform. Needed are restoration of discipline, ending of drug and alcohol abuse, raising academic standards, encouraging good teaching, restoring parent and state/local government involvement, and teaching the basics. (MSE)