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Remarks by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Raise the Bar: Lead the World JANUARY 24, 2023 Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov \\ Tthank you to everyone, here and on the livestream, for joining us today for an important conversation on what it will take to Raise the Bar in education – and Lead the World – in three key areas: academic excellence, boldly improving learning conditions, and preparing our students for a world of global competitiveness. Acchieving those priorities is part of a broader journey we can take 2 transform our education system for the better. It’s a journey that that that was made possible by President Biden and Vice President Harris’s leadership to make education a top priority and deliver the American Rescue Plan – a historic $130 billion investment in supporting our schools -- helping them reopen swiftly and safely, and invest in the academic recovery they urgently needed. Without that leadership, we would be talking about a very different situation today. But we can’t rest there. We must do more. We need to Raise the Bar. That means putting the era of fiscal neglect in education firmly in the rear-view mirror – mustering the collective will to act boldly and unapologetically to address student underperformance and the decades of underinvestment in education.. People often ask me what the hardest part of the job is. Simple: the toughest part of the job, just as it is for so many at the Dept, is the time away from family. For me, to this day, the best title I have earned in my life is, “Papi”. So, to help make this better, I started a routine with my 16 year old daughter.. We started 2 years ago with this thing called Saturday shenanigans. Basically, we get up Saturday mornings really early and we get in the car and go…. We go anywhere. We usually start off with a coffee. Then, we end up either at a beach, at a park for a hike, or sometimes we stop at a pet store. Other times, it turns into a driving lesson for her. And after two years of doing this every Saturday morning, getting in the car and going nowhere in particular, and watching my daughter grow in front of my eyes, I realized that sometimes, as a father, the journey is the destination. That means that, it’s not an event or one specific place. It’s a process of improving over time to solve problems and ensure lasting, continuous growth and strong relationships. The journey is the destination. Today, I’m here to tell you that, in education, too, the journey is the destination. 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. -It means that we pursue good pedagogy in a well-rounded education that includes and embraces the Arts—and reject a school experience that is narrowed to only what is tested. We need to recognize once and for all that standardized tests work best when they serve as a flashlight on what works and what needs our attention – not as hammers to drive the outcomes we want in education from the top down, often pointing fingers to those with greater needs and less resources. - And it also means recognizing that a strong start in education makes a big difference. Let’s get behind President Biden’s call for free universal early education, and get started by expanding preschool in Title I schools and enhancing kindergarten as a sturdy bridge to the early grades. Raising the Bar also means boldly improving learning conditions. It means transformational shifts in how we invest in and provide mental health supports to go from a reactive school model to a proactive model that focuses on a student’s overall well-being Not only through the American Rescue Plan, but the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, billions of dollars were provided to raise the bar in access to mental health supports and safe and supportive learning environments for students. We’ve also increased support for Full-Service Community Schools from $30 million to $150 million. This provides critical wraparound services for students in their local communities.