American - Public | November 20, 1957 -
It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
Margaret Spellings
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I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
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There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection.
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For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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