Richard Riley
Richard Riley
Richard Wilson Rileyis an American politician, the United States Secretary of Education under President Bill Clinton and the 111th Governor of South Carolina. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Riley is the only Democrat to serve two consecutive terms as Governor in the time since the state constitution was amended to allow Governors to serve consecutive terms...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 January 1933
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I have said that if every parent read with their children at least 30 minutes a night, it would really revolutionize education in this country, ... Early Edition.
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The quality of experiences in the early years matters, ... child care facilities that meet high standards and offer employees a livable wage remain woefully inadequate.
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underscores the importance of increasing efforts to support and expand early childhood learning.
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These numbers reflect real and substantial progress, ... They are the product of several aggressive management decisions that were intended to get the default problem under control.
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I intend to meet with many of them this year to ask for their direct help to help turn this digital divide into a digital opportunity.
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A simple but profound fact: There is no end in sight for the increase in young people attending our nation's schools,
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We can now work to direct this money to the classroom and help many more needy public, private and parochial school children,
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The reshaping of education through e-learning leads me to observe that international course-taking is on the horizon, ... Imagine students at UCLA taking courses at Oxford, and students in Tokyo learning physics from a professor at Duke.
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There's no competition that I know of, but it is an open meeting, and nominations will be accepted on the floor. We assume the existing leadership provided good guidance to the association and will be going forward in the year.
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Things have moved up considerably, ... The inclination of states to get in on the action is what moves them. But people in South Carolina are ready for a real, participatory democracy.
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Schools are safer in a slight percentage in terms of overall criminal acts,
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Our elementary schools are getting better at teaching the basics,
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only half of all parents are reading to their children every day. My message to parents is to read, read, read. It makes a powerful difference.
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No child should have to go to a failing school,