Margaret Spellings
Margaret Spellings
Margaret M. LaMontagne Spellings, née Dudar, is an education administrator and American politician. Spellings is currently the University of North Carolina System President, having taken office on March 1, 2016...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth20 November 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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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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The absence of good, sound data makes it difficult to set policy at the federal, state and institutional levels, ... It's time to examine how we can maximize our investment in higher education.
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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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This is a national commitment to you all here in the Gulf Coast, ... We owe each of these precious children, particularly after all they have been through, a high quality education.
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We make small fixes with programs to emphasize key areas, but we don't think strategically about the bigger picture, ... We can't afford to leave the future of our nation's higher education community to chance.
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These Blue Ribbon Schools are an example of what teachers and students can achieve, ... For the first time, we are insisting on results and accountability in return for our federal investment in education.
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I shouldn't be talking about the details that I'm in negotiations with the White House and the Hill on, ... As soon as I can talk about it, I want to talk about it.
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And what we do today will probably be not what we're going to do in three years from now.
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The thing about Harriet is, it wasn't about Harriet, ... To her, it was a matter of moving the grist through the mill. . . . She was a manager of the process.
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We don't want to write off this school year academically for these kids, and shouldn't, at least not yet.
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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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We have some pioneers, some leaders around the country, in Massachusetts and Kansas to name a couple, that are doing some of the best work.
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We must not penalize any school of any kind for its commitment to these students,
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It does show us that we're going to need to accelerate our progress at all grade levels and with all kids if we're to meet our goal