“In math and science, our 4th graders are among the top in the world. By the 8th grade, they’re in the middle of the pack. By the 12th grade, U.S. students are scoring near the bottom of all industrialized nations…

"Training the workforce of tomorrow with the high schools of today is like trying to teach kids about today’s computers on a 50-year-old mainframe. 

"It’s the wrong tool for the times."

Mr. Bill Gates, CEO, Microsoft, in his address to the nation’s governors at the National Governor’s Association’s National Summit on High Schools, February 26, 2005