Margaret Spellings

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

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.

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.

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.