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Fox Business, Interview with Neil Cavuto
Discussing the vital role education plays in helping jobs and the economy on Fox Business with Cavuto.
View More —›The Hill: The Executive Viewpoint: Department of Education Says Welcome Back Waivers
In the 1970s sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter,” about a teacher who returns to his old high school to teach a group of kids who call themselves “sweat hogs,” character Vinnie Barbarino routinely brought in excuses for his absences. Read aloud by Mr. Kotter, they always concluded with: “Signed, Vinnie’s mother.”
View More —›Center for American Progress: “Where Are We and Where Are We Going? The Stakes for Reauthorizing ESEA”
Margaret Spellings with Secretary Arne Duncan and Congressman George Miller.
View More —›Politico: No Child Left Behind works but needs updates
Sometimes, it’s hard out there for an education secretary.
View More —›International Republican Institute Rising Stars Training Mission: Tunisia
Margaret Spellings participates in a three day training session with Tunisia’s emerging leaders and discusses how to formulate public policy and the development of an executive management structure.
View More —›U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Institute for a Competitive Workforce Degrees of Change: Private Sector Innovations Transforming Higher Education
Margaret Spellings highlights some of the challenges facing the country’s higher education system, offers solutions, and reaffirms the U.S. Chamber’s commitment to post-secondary education. The U.S. Chamber also released the report College 2.0: Transforming Higher Education through Greater Innovation and Smarter Regulation.
View More —›The Washington Times: Chamber Pushes GOP-backed Reforms for Nation’s Schools
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday called on Congress to speed up its efforts to reform federal education policy and released a broad outline of priorities it says are crucial to student success across the country.
View More —›The Washington Times: Spellings: Politics, lack of knowledge hurt school reform
Ten years ago, former President George W. Bush’s signature education initiative, the No Child Left Behind Act, garnered strong bipartisan support and passed the Senate on an 87-10 vote. Congress is back at the drawing board, working on a policy overhaul. But this time, the “planetary alignment” between the parties from a decade ago is nowhere to be found, former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said Monday.
View More —›Bipartisan Policy Center Education Bridge-Builder Breakfast Beyond Politics: Why Education Reform Shouldn’t be a Partisan Issue
A panel with Margaret Spellings with Ron Tomalis, Dr. Jerry Weast, Segun Eubanks and Andrew Rotherham.
View More —›The University of Phoenix: America’s “woefully underprepared” students can become tomorrow’s leaders
America, as a nation and an education system, must stop mollycoddling today’s students and, instead, demand higher academic expectations if they are to evolve into tomorrow’s successful global leaders. Otherwise, they risk perpetuating the overwhelming reality that their skills sets are “woefully underprepared” for workplace translation, says former U.S. Secretary of Education and White House Domestic Policy Advisor Margaret Spellings.
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