Chronicle.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Advocates of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings's ideas on how to make colleges more affordable and accessible are disappointed at the slow rate of improvement.
The DC Education Blog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
This time from Department of Education head Margaret Spellings . Better schools. Higher scores. And satisfied parents. That's the record of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. It is helping us keep our promise to leave no child behind in America. If Congress is thinking of breaking this promise, the nation deserves to know the story. Signed into law by President Bush four years ago, the program...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
This morning, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has an op-ed in the Washington Post exhorting Congress to save the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, the voucher initiative for the nation’s capital that last year gave 1,900 children a chance to go to better schools. As far as the Fordham Foundation’s Mike Petrilli is concerned, it was close [...]
MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Margaret Spellings, US Secretary for Education led the first keynote with an inspiring talk around education in the United States, and gave some interesting ideas that could be taken elsewhere - as well as alerting us to some challenges faced in the US that could well be faced elsewhere. Agile and Aligned In the US, there are 14 million undergraduates. Half are enrolled in part-time courses . There...
Region 19 BOE Gazette (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
My, my, my. The dirty tricks never end. On Independence Day Margaret Spellings has announced which States will enjoy relaxed NCLB protocols. Of the seventeen states that applied, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, and Ohio were -cough- chosen . Given the electoral importance of these states, one cannot help but wonder aloud how tax money that pays for federal bureaucracies can be so cynically...
WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
At a time of crisis and transition in the American economy, do we have the right ideas for training the 21st century workforce? Brian moderates a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival on the ideas of commerce and knowledge with U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings , U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez , and philanthropist Eli Broad .
Docuticker (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
New Reading First Data From States Shows Impressive Gains in Reading Proficiency Source: U.S. Department of Education U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today announced new data from the states showing impressive gains for Reading First students. The achievement data submitted by state education agencies (SEAs) and compiled and analyzed by the Education Department’s contractor, American...
Matt's blog (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
RALEIGH, N.C., March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings made her rounds today, delivering remarks to the State Board of Education, to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and to select local educators and school administrators at the North Carolina Education Building, on the success of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), NCAE President Eddie Davis...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Former Gov. Jeb Bush opened his Foundation for Excellence in Education national summit by delivering Thursday's luncheon keynote address, with U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, at Disney's Contemporary Resort. Also on hand was former Colorado governor Roy Romer, Florida House...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
U.S. education chief Margaret Spellings made a whirlwind tour of San Diego yesterday to discuss how technology in schools can raise student achievement and better prepare students for the real world. Spellings hosted the last of four roundtable forums, held nationwide over the past 14 months, at wireless giant Qualcomm – where she engaged leaders in education, technology and investment on topics ranging...
Colin McEnroe | To Wit (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
I can't decide how I feel about the NYT front page profile of education hatchet woman Margaret Spellings. I guess I object to the implicit suggestion that there is anything different about Spellings and the Bush education strategy, as opposed to...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Margaret Spellings, the United States secretary of education, is on a campaign to preserve President Bush’s beleaguered education initiative, No Child Left Behind.
tampabay.com blogs (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Joining Jeb Bush for a June 19-20 "Excellence in Action" summit on education reform in Orlando: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, journalist John Stossel, Pennsylvania State Sen. Anthony H. Williams; former Colorado Gov....
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Learning occurs in places beyond the classroom and goes beyond the responsibility of schools, U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said Monday.Education also an integral part of our homes, churches, synagogues, communities, and workplaces Spellings said at the opening of the Air Force One Discovery Center at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. That's why it's so appropriate that...
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Texas Monthly Talks: Margaret Spellings (Interview by Evan Smith, May 2008, Texas Monthly) Well, if one were a critic of No Child Left Behind, one would say “enough” begins with as much as you mandate. A criticism that has come your way is that you put in place a program with certain mandates that cost X but then only partially fund it and tell the states, basically, “Deal with it.” Federal policy...
