Margaret Spellings

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

If all you ever do is all you've ever done, then all you'll ever get is all you've ever got.

— Margaret Spellings

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.

— Margaret Spellings

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing…

— Margaret Spellings

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

— Margaret Spellings

For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.

— Margaret Spellings

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

— Margaret Spellings

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that…

— Margaret Spellings

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're…

— Margaret Spellings

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results…

— Margaret Spellings

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might…

— Margaret Spellings

There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able…

— Margaret Spellings