Achievement Quote by 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 impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.”

Margaret Spellings

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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.

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

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

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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…

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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…

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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