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Margaret Spellings [1957-0] American

Rank: 102
Public Servant, President of the University of North Carolina System

Margaret M. LaMontagne Spellings, née Dudar, is an education administrator and American politician. Spellings is currently the President of the University of North Carolina, overseeing the seventeen campus system since March 1, 2016.

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I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.		101
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.		102
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.	Knowledge, Teacher	103
What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.		104
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.		105
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.		106
Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.		107
The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.		108
My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.		109
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.		110
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.		111
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.		112
Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.		113
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.		114
I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.		115
It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.		116
I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.		117
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.		118
For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.		119
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.		120
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.		121

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