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
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, its an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality. – Margaret Spellings
We want to obviously foster a relationship that were a partner with states that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does and that were practical and sophisticated enough to understand what theyre talking about. – Margaret Spellings
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. – Thomas B. Macaulay