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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The achievement gap is closing and that is great news for every student, ... These Blue Ribbon Schools are an example of what teachers and students can achieve.
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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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Also, make sure your children are challenged make sure they are bringing more and more rigorous work home.
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implement this law in a sensible and workable way.
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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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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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Advanced Placement has proven to be a very effective model to get teachers the full capability to teach rigorous course work.
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One of the things we know is that, frequently, it's a reading deficiency that is keeping kids from being able to do more rigorous coursework.
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The result does show us we need to accelerate progress at all grade levels, with all kids, if we are to meet those goals,
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I'm encouraged... we're on the right track, especially with younger students,
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At all grade levels, all subjects and all kids, we know where we need to work,
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My top priority is raising student achievement, and I'm going to be as flexible as I possibly can to help all students, ... This is about children's futures and ensuring that New York City's parents have as many options as possible for their children. In exchange for more flexibility, New York City has committed to being accountable for making high-quality academic help available to more students, which will lead to increased achievement.
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A growth model is not a way around accountability standards,
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Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.