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We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

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Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

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It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

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I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

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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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For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: November 20th, 1957

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