Margaret Spellings

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.

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.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!