Margaret Spellings Quotes
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I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
All
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And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.
America
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What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
Demanding
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But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and…
Accountable
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It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
College
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We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more…
Approach
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My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.
Been
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Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
Adequately
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We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap,…
Achievement
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And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do…
American
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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 assessment…
Actual
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I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart…
Achievement
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I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
Achievement
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The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
All
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Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
Accountability
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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 what…
Going Right
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For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.
Either Said
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I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
Culture
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There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and…
Able
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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 to…
Civic
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