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What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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Workplace
Workplace Safety
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I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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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.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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Massachusetts
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Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities. Always stand proud in who you are!
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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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.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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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.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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Challenges
Citizenry
Confronting
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Higher
Higher Education
Numbers
Adequately
Trained
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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 sophisticated approach.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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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 get more people educated to higher levels.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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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 needs improvement, and that's what this law does.
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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 students themselves, when they make a selection.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
Different Cultures
Evaluate
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Lots
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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 ought to evaluate which programs get results.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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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 knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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Achievement
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Impart
Subject Matter
Thinking
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Subject
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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 as is required in the statute.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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Connecticut
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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 reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
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Believe
Broadcasting
Children
Intimate
Reading
Sexuality
Young Children
American People
Medium
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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, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.
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