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October 8, 2003

Secretary of Education Rod Paige proposes measures to reduce the achievement gap in America's high schools.

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Transcript: Today begins a national dialog on the state of our high schools—and what we need to do to improve them.

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Transcript: High schools that will fit the new century, high schools representing the new thinking. This Department is committed to providing the best information possible and the best assistance that we can.

Assistant Education Secretary Susan Sclafani on the new and higher standards needed in high schools.

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Transcript: We've got to end the period of time when we said, "this small group will go on to college therefore we'll educate them well and the rest are on their own."

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Transcript: We had different standards twenty years ago. But now we recognize every child has to have the full core curriculum—three years of rigorous mathematics, three years of rigorous science—as well as four years of English, four years of social studies, so that they're prepared.

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