Top 32 Margaret Spellings Quotes
#1. 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.
Margaret Spellings
#2. It's a hard process to navigate ... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
Margaret Spellings
#3. 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.
Margaret Spellings
#4. Bal," she whispered, her forehead resting against his chest as the seconds counted away. "The only power I'd wish for is the power to turn back time.
Alison Sinclair
#5. I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
Margaret Spellings
#6. The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
Margaret Spellings
#7. I come from a blue-collar town - and being from that place, you learn not to let anybody take advantage of you. You don't let people mistreat you. You stand up for what's right.
Mo'Nique
#8. I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
Margaret Spellings
#9. American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
Philip Johnson
#10. 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.
Margaret Spellings
#11. 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.
Margaret Spellings
#12. For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#13. Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
Margaret Spellings
#14. Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
Margaret Spellings
#15. If all you ever do is all you've ever done, then all you'll ever get is all you've ever got.
Margaret Spellings
#16. Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.
Margaret Spellings
#17. Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.
Geezer Butler
#18. The sweep of his arms was wide and athletic, more like a quarterback than a middling golfer who had dropped off the tour.
Nichole Bernier
#19. Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second.
Ann Coulter
#20. 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.
Margaret Spellings
#21. 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.
Margaret Spellings
#22. The screaming of the beasts becomes louder. One can no longer distinguish whence in this now quiet silvery landscape it comes; ghostly, invisible, it is everywhere, between heaven and earth it rolls on immeasurably.
Erich Maria Remarque
#24. My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.
Margaret Spellings
#25. 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.
Margaret Spellings
#26. But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.
Margaret Spellings
#28. 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.
Margaret Spellings
#29. Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities.
Always stand proud in who you are!
Margaret Spellings
#30. I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.
Boris Nemtsov
#32. I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
Margaret Spellings
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