Business Coalition For Student Achievement

News Archives – November 2006

November 26, 2006 – The New York Times Magazine, Paul Tough, “What it Takes to Make a Student.”
“By 2014, the President vowed, African-American, Hispanic and poor children, all of whom were at the time scoring well below their white counterparts and those in the middle class on standardized tests, would not only catch up with the
rest of the nation; they would also reach 100 percent proficiency in both
math and reading.”