Monday, November 23, 2009

Margaret Spellings

Another Plan to Simplify Financial Aid Forms

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings unveils her plan to cut the form down to 27 questions. more >>

Education Chief Appears on The Colbert Report

Spellings questioned on the possibility of federally mandated spanking more >>

New Head of Teacher's Union Attacks NCLB

Education secretary reacts. more >>

Spellings Blasts Reading First Cuts

The Education Secretary also softened NCLB rules. more >>

Education Reacts to Senator Kennedy's Illness

Bush and Spellings offer their sympathies to their NCLB colleague. more >>

Connecticut's NCLB Lawsuit Is Dismissed

With her free time, Secretary Spellings may start a Facebook page. more >>

U.S. Aims to Tackle Inflated Graduation Rates

Initiative comes as a private report shows staggering dropout figures in many big cities. more >>

Chief Teacher's Jeopardy! Lesson

It takes more than just smarts to win at Jeopardy! Just ask Education Secretary Margaret Spellings. more >>

Secretary Spellings: The World Tour

Education Secretary Spellings is threatening to make changes on her own to push No Child Left Behind. more >>

What Secretary Spellings Thinks of the College Rankings

Her comments address the need for more higher education assessment data. more >>

The Education Secretary Talks About NCLB

Spellings shares her thoughts on how that law can be improved when it is renewed. more >>

One Standard Fits All

Academic standards vary widely from state to state, leading some people to push for federal standards more >>

For Talented Students, Challenges to Grow

Gifted students are often ignored due to efforts to raise other students' test scores. more >>

Failing Schools Are Hard to Fix

NCLB lets people know which schools are struggling but offers few solutions on how to raise performance more >>

Room to Improve

No Child Left Behind is scheduled for reauthorization by the end of this year more >>

It's Back to School for Secretary 'Starbuck'

Now this is the way to go back to school: Wrap a supercomfy executive motor coach in yellow to make it look like a real school bus, grab a Starbucks tall Soy Misto, and take two field trips, one to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for some karaoke and a second to shoot rockets at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. A dream? Not for Education Secretary Margaret Spellings. more >>

Will It Soon Be Governor Spellings?

Rumors of a Texas gubernatorial bid by Bush's education secretary sweep through the department. more >>

Golf Pro Mickelson Coaches Spellings

Masters champ Phil Mickelson knows there's a lot more to golf than turf and beer. It's the fancy angles and calculations involved that wow him, and he thinks those golf traits are a good way to get kids into math and science. more >>

Make Room, Simon, for <i>Idol</i>'s Margaret

Even nerdy Washington has caught American Idol fever as the show enters its spectacular finale showdown between 17-year-old Jordin Sparks and beat-box guy Blake Lewis. Of course, the first family, who endorsed the show's massive "Idol Gives Back" fundraiser, will check out the Fox show. more >>

So, She Loses Celebrity Jeopardy and Gets Outdanced by Karl Rove?

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