These schools represent the very best American public education has to offer.

It's not like an American education, where they teach you how to think.

"I want to get a full American education for my boys," he said.

"These people need help, to get into the mainstream of American education."

Nor have schools been the only, or perhaps even the primary, institutions of American education.

His gift is the largest ever made for American public education.

"American education is far more likely to make the recovery it needs because of the focus he put on schools."

But like other aspects of American education, they need reform.

Mann is often called "the father of American public education."

Nor does he say much that is helpful about American education.