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.

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.

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.

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.