Margaret Spellings Quotes

• 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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• 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.

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  Tags in Competitive, Levels

• 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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  Tags in Righteous, Improvement

• 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.

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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.

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  Tags in Television, Medium

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

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

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

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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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  Tags in Useful, Institution

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

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  Tags in Figure, Process

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

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  Tags in Seeking, Kinds

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

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

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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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  Tags in Attention, Accountability, High School

• 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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  Topics in Education

  Tags in Confronting, Educated

Margaret Spellings (21)

Birth:	30th November, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Spellings was born Margaret Dudar on November 30, 1957 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and moved with her family to Houston when she was in the third grade. Spellings graduated from Sharpstown High School in 1975. Margaret Spellings earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Houston in 1979 and worked in an education reform commission under Texas Governor.

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