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 SpellingsBut 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 SpellingsWe 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 SpellingsAnd 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 SpellingsMy understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.
Margaret SpellingsWe 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 SpellingsIn 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 SpellingsIt's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
Margaret SpellingsI think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
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