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Margaret Spellings
American
Public Servant
Born:
Nov 20
,
1957
Achievement
Believe
Education
More
Parents
Think
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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
Teacher
Knowledge
Achievement
Matter
Think
Kids
Critical
Impart
He
He Or She
Know
Piece
She
Knows
How
Doing
Subject
Subject Matter
Closing
Who
Gap
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
Margaret Spellings
Achievement
Change
One Thing
About
Know
Without
Educators
Close
Going
Mean
Gap
Thing
Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
Margaret Spellings
Truth
School
Matter
Accountability
High
High School
Attention
Again
Much
Much Attention
Paid
What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
Margaret Spellings
Demanding
Before
More
Know
Than
Workplace
Ever
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
Holding
Believe
Other
Programs
Ought
Those
Folks
Results
Also
Accountable
Get
Closest
Decide
Which
Notion
Evaluate
Ground
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 Spellings
Relationship
Achievement
Goals
Partner
Congress
Enough
States
About
Share
Sophisticated
Obviously
Practical
Talking
Understand
Does
Same
Closing
Just
Want
Foster
Gap
I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
Margaret Spellings
Parents
Think
Kinds
Seeking
Different
I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
Margaret Spellings
Culture
Parents
Think
Kind
Institution
Know
Useful
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
Seen
Understanding
Year
Every
Other
Annual
Although
Provide
Want
Litigation
Required
Measure
Connecticut
Assessment
Actual
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
Needs
Law
School
Parents
Think
Righteous
Know
Does
Improvement
Going
Want
Right
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
Trust
People
Language
Important
Reading
Young
Believe
Medium
Broadcasting
Intimate
Television
Sexuality
Development
Without
American
Getting
Human
Children
Young Children
Public
American People
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