Margaret Spellings quotes
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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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“I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.”
-- Margaret SpellingsSource : "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
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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 SpellingsSource : "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
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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 SpellingsSource : "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.
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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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“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.”
-- Margaret SpellingsSource : "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
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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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“My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.”
-- Margaret SpellingsSource : Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robele, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
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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 SpellingsSource : "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.
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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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“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 SpellingsSource : "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
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“What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.”
-- Margaret SpellingsSource : "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
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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 SpellingsSource : "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.
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“I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.”
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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
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