Critical Quotes by Margaret Spellings

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

— Margaret Spellings

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

— Margaret Spellings

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

— Margaret Spellings

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to…

— Margaret Spellings

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have…

— Margaret Spellings

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and…

— Margaret Spellings

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

— Margaret Spellings

Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities. Always stand proud in who you are!

— Margaret Spellings

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

— Margaret Spellings

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual…

— Margaret Spellings

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.

— Margaret Spellings

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

— Margaret Spellings