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Margaret Spellings

"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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Donna Grant

"To become a better you, don't dream of becoming a superior over other people. Dream of becoming a superior over your previous achievements."

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Donna Grant

"The beginning of change can on start from accepting the fact that there are some things about your life that you desperately need to change or improve on."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Improvement begins with I."

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Donna Grant

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."

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Donna Grant

"The perfect is the enemy of the good."

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Donna Grant

"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today."

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Donna Grant

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."

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Donna Grant

"There are no quick fixes in your life. If you want to live a happier life you have to make your actions happier every day. You need to be determined to make your life better if you want it to be so."

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Donna Grant

"The only excuse for not improving yourself is not taking the time and effort to."

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Margaret Spellings
"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."

Improvement

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Margaret Spellings
"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."

Achievement

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Margaret Spellings
"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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Margaret Spellings
"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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Margaret Spellings
"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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Margaret Spellings
"My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side."

Education

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Margaret Spellings
"It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college."

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Margaret Spellings
"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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Margaret Spellings
"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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Margaret Spellings
"Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry."

Education

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