Higher education has an enormous stake in the 'product' of our elementary and secondary schools.
Universities must play a greater role in these deliberations, in genuine partnerships with leaders of our elementary and secondary schools. There must be constant interaction between these schools and higher education if this crisis public education is going to be solved. The university leaders agreed that in most countries teachers in public schools are not given the recognition and the staus they deserve. These teachers must be recognized accordingly in both status and income. The universities present pledged to assist in this process both within and without their universities.