Margaret Spellings

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

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

— Margaret Spellings

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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

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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. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

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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

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For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

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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

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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

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I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

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