The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education especially higher education.

I did get a degree in special education.

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education repeat a grade or commit crimes in adolescence.

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

I pledge to you today that as president in my first budget I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

Poor people people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.