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Whether It's In An Inner-city School Or A Rural Community, I Want Those Students To Have A Chance To Take A.p. Biology And A.p. Physics And Marine Biology.

To Be Clear, We The Department Of Education Want Curriculum To Be Driven By The Local Level. We Are By Law Prohibited From Directing Curriculum. We Don't Have A Curriculum Department.

We Have Had This Massive Effort On K-12 Reform, Raising Standards, Great Teachers, Great Principals, Turning Around Chronically Failing Schools, Raising The Bar, Huge Amount Of Progress. Let's Continue That.

Whether You Look At These Recent Pisa Results, Which We Are Mediocre At Best, Whether You Look At A 25 Percent Dropout Rate In This Country, Whether You Look At, In One Generation, We're Not Doing What We Need To Be Doing To Keep America Great.

Teachers Say Their Schools Of Education Did Not Adequately Prepare Them For The Classroom. They Would Have Welcomed More Mentoring And Feedback In Their Early Years.