Carney's Commentary

Straight A’s (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Jan. 17, 2005

Bush outlined a $1.5 billion high school initiative to help all students graduate with skills necessary to succeed in college and to be competitive in the workforce. Further, early intervention programs for at-risk 9th graders AND the Importance of Reading.
Margaret Spellings stated, “What gets measured gets done.”

On 3rd Anniversary of NCLB, new report finds little improvement among mid and high school students.

The RAND report (stressing reading failure) is available at www.rand.org/publications/TR/TR180/ also at Education Week.