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.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I broke with my religion in college.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.