Sympathetic piece in Newsweek profiles Margaret Spellings as she plays out the string as the Bush Administration’s Education Secretary. Spellings, the mag notes, has “the thankless task of being the primary spokesman for No Child Left Behind.”
“Spellings wants to think that she’s done some good,” Newsweek concludes. “At the very minimum, she hopes the heat and light surrounding No Child Left Behind has focused the attention of America on the shameful achievement gap between middle-class and poor kids, between white kids and kids of color. ‘And things can’t go back the way they used to be—when we didn’t have accountability,’ she implores. ‘When we didn’t care that poor kids were falling behind.’ She pauses. “Can we?”
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