We need to make the connections and make it a whole system.
We must have rigorous goals that can be achieved.
And then you mentioned the school choice issue, and this is part of the punitive structure of a school being labeled uns...
Yes, they do?
For every student that comes to first grade unable to read, we are failing seven of them.
We continue to react to the widening achievement gap rather than addressing the source of the problem.
It is my hope that as you consider the reauthorization of ESEA, you will provide adequate and stable funding for this im...
Time is of the essence for every child being educated.
the funds being shifted from, if you will, formula grants into competitive grants means that now the school district has...
In your elementary schools, do the teachers talk about each student each week with each other?
So what is it that kind of catches your students' imagination in the sense that it is relevant and not just some dry thi...
Our skills as a Nation, as they relate to skills in other countries around the world, are slipping.
But it sounded to me that much of what has gone on is trying to break down the silo in which teachers often find themsel...
Do you find that if the punitive structure of No Child Left Behind was taken away, does the data itself and slicing it i...
So tell me this, as you talk about the accountability, and No Child Left Behind has a series of measures after 3 years o...
We are becoming the first generation of adults whose children are getting less education than we got.
I just so appreciate getting this on the official record because I want folks back in Washington to make sure they hear ...
And this is a story we have certainly heard throughout the State. And it is a big deal.
