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" Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability. "
Accountability
Attention
School
" 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. "
Reading
Trust
Children
" 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. "
Think
Parents
School
" 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. "
Improvement
Children
Think
" 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. "
Other
Ground
Decide
" For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that. "
You
Said
Long
" Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. "
Higher Education
Education
Challenges
" 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. "
Teacher
Think
Achievement
" I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators. "
Change
Achievement
Without
" 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. "
Year
Want
Understanding
" I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking. "
Think
Parents
Different
" I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution. "
Know
Parents
Think
" It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college. "
College
Your
Process
" My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side. "
Special
Education
More
" The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs. "
Rigor
Short
Kinds
" 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. "
Kind
Different Cultures
Need
" 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. "
Education
Show
More
" 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. "
Know
Educated
Democracy
" Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything. "
Well
Assessment
Grades
" 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. "
Achievement
Relationship
Enough
" What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before. "
Demanding
Workplace
Know
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