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  • The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences

    Long   Achievement   Gaps  
  • I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

    Teacher   Kids   Thinking  
    "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
  • Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

    Ambition   Men   Feet  
  • I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

    Mean   Achievement   Gaps  
    "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
  • Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.

    Teacher   School   Kids  
  • We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

    "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
  • If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.

    Kids   Class   People  
    Source: www.theatlantic.com
  • In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.

    Thinking   Law   People  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

  • To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it.

    Past   America   Giving  
    Source: www.theatlantic.com
  • I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.

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