Japanese officials have requested an outline of the concrete actions being contemplated as a result of President Bush's recent "education summit" with the nation's governors.

"It was awesome," he said quietly, after watching the President at Thomas Jefferson's home last week during the education summit.

There was an education summit for all members of the community in March 1998.

Mr. Fernandez can make his greatest contribution by returning the education summit's skywriting to earth.

At the beginning of August, President Bush announced that he was inviting the nation's governors to an education summit the following month.

The nation's governors had it right at the education "summit" in 1989: our education system from birth on needs to be rethought.

This was one of President Bush's key proposals at the recent education summit.

He should convene an education summit to bring legislative leaders, parents, teachers and community leaders together.

Instead, they urged the President to save his first big address to tout the coming education summit or environmental programs.

Without school choice, parents will not truly be involved in the kind of restructuring called for at the recent education summit.