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Do you find that if the punitive structure of No Child Left Behind was taken away, does the data itself and slicing it in many different directions prove helpful to understanding t...
7/14/2011
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...
7/14/2011
Yes, they do?
7/14/2011
Our skills as a Nation, as they relate to skills in other countries around the world, are slipping.
7/14/2011
So what is it that kind of catches your students' imagination in the sense that it is relevant and not just some dry thi...
7/14/2011
In your elementary schools, do the teachers talk about each student each week with each other?
7/14/2011
While you have the microphone, are there other things in the afterschool enrichment world that are particularly transpor...
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I think that that is right.
7/14/2011
I mean, I do believe that America, we all know, has fallen way behind.
7/14/2011
We continue to react to the widening achievement gap rather than addressing the source of the problem.
7/14/2011
For every student that comes to first grade unable to read, we are failing seven of them.
7/14/2011
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Jeff Alan Merkley
in office

usa, Oregon

3,831 Quotes

Born10/24/1956 (age 69)

PartyDemocratic

  • United States Senator

    1/6/2009 - present
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