Business Coalition For Student Achievement

Editorial and Op-ed Archive – October 2006

October 19, 2006 – The Washington Post, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, “What’s Behind Student Success.”
“Some students groomed for success. Others written off. This was the ‘triage’ practiced in too many schools before the No Child Left Behind Act. Back then, there was little data on student achievement and few academic benchmarks for success. The driving force of accountability was absent. Today, there is more reason for optimism.”