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21 quotes by Margaret Spellings

Margaret Spellings (born November 30, 1957) is an American politician who served as the Secretary of Education from 2005 to 2009 under the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and previously served as White House Domestic Policy Adviser to President George W. Bush. She was one of the principal proponents of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act that aimed at reforming primary and secondary education. In 2005, she convened a Commission on...
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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... →

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What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.

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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... →

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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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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... →

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The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

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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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And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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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For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.

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