House Proceeding on Mar 9th, 2009 :: 0:39:40 to 0:42:55
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Michael N. Castle: country. i ask all of my colleagues to i re time. the speaker pro tempo gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from california. ms. reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky. mr. guthrie: mr. speaker, i yield as much time as he may

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Speech By: Michael N. Castle

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Michael N. Castle: consume to the gentleman from delaware, mr. castle. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from delaware is recognized. mr. castle: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman from kentucky for yielding. i'd like to thank both of the speakers, ms. woolsey and the gentleman from kentucky for rationally eplaining a that not many people understand. i did have the opportunity and

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Michael N. Castle: the measure of serving on the nagb board for several years when i was governor of delaware. it's not easy work, by the way. i call it a pleasure but it involves a lot of difficult meetings. but the bottom line is, they do put together the national assessment for education progress, the naep tests, which are given universally as far as

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Michael N. Castle: the states are concerned in our country. and aras good a measuring device that we have for the progress of education from year to year. voluntarily but all -- voluntary but all states participate in it in grades four through eight and we can determine we've done somewhat better, perhaps a lot better

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Michael N. Castle: from year to year as we look at these tests. i can tell thaw those 26 people who change from time to time and come from a variety of backgrounds are all very dedicated to the concept of making this very apolitical, make sure that it's a fair standard and test for all those who are going to take it and make sure that all of the reporting requirements are met in a proper way.

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Michael N. Castle: and this goes through the secretary of education and is reported by them. i think they do a wonderful job with this. this to me is an important measuring stick. while congratulateary resolutions may not be important thing we do in the congress of the united states, i think recognizes --

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Michael N. Castle: recognizing a board like this that deals with preparing this kind of reporting and this kind of background for the testing is a very significant thing to do, to make sure they are being honored for an achievement which think is important in terms of dealing with education. all ous deal with education policy on a regular basis.

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Michael N. Castle: we know how important it is to understand that what we're doing is perhaps a step, a small step or large step in the right direction. and i think that the naep tests do that. for that reason i hope we could all support this resolution. again, i thank those who have spoken on the floor for their very thorough and excellent explanations of what nagb does

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Michael N. Castle: and what naep is all about. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky reserves his time. the gentlewoman from california. ms. woolsey: i reserve my time for closing remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky. mr. guthrie: mr. speaker, i have no other speakers, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the

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Michael N. Castle: gentleman yields back his time. the gentlewoman from