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March 30, 2004

Education Secretary Rod Paige meets with Advanced Placement (AP) teachers and urges them to lead education reform efforts.

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Transcript: We must make a startling statement of inclusion and equality. I urge each of you to change the thinking of our education system, to promote the radical idea that all students can learn, to make advanced courses available to students who've never had the opportunity before, and to take advanced courses to school settings that have never had them in the past.

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Transcript: Education reform isn't real reform unless it promotes excellence and expects students to learn. The AP Program is the best kind of reform; with higher expectations it uses the strength of educational achievement to improve educational quality.

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Transcript: The President and I want to drastically expand the number of students prepared to succeed in Advanced Placement courses and in college. Especially low income and minority children.

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