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

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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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 think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution."
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"My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side."
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