Able Quote by 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 to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection.” quote by Margaret Spellings — Download Open image

“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 students themselves, when they make a selection.”

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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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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