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Remarks by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Raise the Bar: Lead the World

JANUARY 24, 2023

Source: https://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/remarks-us-secretary-education-miguel-cardona-raise-bar-lead-world

참고: Raise the Bar: Lead The World는 미국 교육부 교육 이니시아티브입니다 (https://www.ed.gov/raisethebar/)

GLOSSARY

1	Elmore, Cohen, and Ball	엘모어 교수, 코헨 교수, 볼 교수 -          참고: 교육계에 유명한 교수들
2	Instructional Core	교수학습핵심
3	PISA test	피사 테스트

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SCRIPT (567 words)

You won’t be hearing about any shiny new initiatives today. But you will hear me invite you to join me on a journey of transformation in education — a journey of raising the bar in education, together.

I know education opens doors – because my wife Marissa and I are proof of it.  Because I’ve seen firsthand the way it transforms lives – as a student, as a teacher, school principal, and as a parent.

So when we talk about the future of education, I could not believe more strongly that we have to get it right – and we have to center our work on what we know really matters: engaging students, effective teaching, and quality content — or what Elmore, Cohen, and Ball refer to as the Instructional Core.

Over the course of my career, and I am sure for many of you here, we’ve seen education policy veer away from improving the instructional core.

We have seen shiny silver bullets from the federal level promising to “fix” education.  We’ve seen big initiatives with clever names that promise everything, only to fade away after the sense of urgency is over.

That’s not what this Administration is about.

This Administration is about substance, not sensationalism in education.  It’s about real solutions to complex issues, informed by real experience – with an unrelenting focus on the instructional core.

In my experience, and in conversations with dedicated educators, local elected education leaders, parents and students, our children cannot afford another round of policies that are not grounded in what is best for kids. What they don’t want is more partisan politics or culture wars in education.  

What we do need is a collective will to fight complacency and status quo in education with the same passion we used to fight COVID.  We need the same spirit of unity and bipartisanship we had in the first two months of the pandemic, when we looked past red and blue, and tapped into our humanity, courage, and American spirit.

I call on my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in Congress, in local elected leadership, and leading our systems, to join us in putting our shared goals in education at the forefront.

Today, we Raise the Bar in Education.  The same is not good enough anymore.  If we do what we’ve done, we’re going to get what we’ve gotten.  We’re better than that.  Our children deserve better than that.

The first area where we must raise the bar is Academic Excellence. 

As much as it is about recovery, it’s also about setting higher standards for academic success in reading and mathematics.  It’s unacceptable that in the most recent PISA test, an assessment which is done internationally, our students scored 36th place out of 79 countries in math.

That’s unacceptable.  We must do better.  We must act like our national security depends on it.

What does this mean to Raise the Bar in Academic Achievement?  How does this connect with the field?

-We need to follow the science of literacy and ensure that students have strong decoding skills taught while embracing a lifelong intrinsic passion for reading.

-We should provide all students with access to financial literacy and ensure they can take high level math courses that prepare them for college and STEM careers.

-It means districts taking a close look at instructional materials to ensure high standards so that an A in school actually means something.