American - Public | November 20, 1957 -
What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
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.
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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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Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.
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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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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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The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
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I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
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My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.
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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.
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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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I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
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