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From Education Newsfeed: U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today launched Building on Results: A Blueprint for Strengthening the No Child Left Behind Act. On the heels of the President's call in his State of the Union Address for Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act, which turned five this month, Spellings said, "There is no better time than this year to get the job done." Building On Results is designed to provide additional tools to our schools and educators to help America's students read and do math at grade level by 2014. It would strengthen efforts to close the achievement gap by giving states more flexibility to measure and increase student progress; encourage rigorous coursework, particularly in math and science, in our nation's high schools; and provide new options and choices for families whose children remain in underperforming schools. "If we let this opportunity pass us by, the loss will be felt greatest by our nation's young people---the very individuals we will be counting on to keep America globally competitive and nationally secure," Spellings said. Achievement gaps in reading and math between African-American and Hispanic nine-year-olds and their white peers have fallen to all-time lows. "The government is now well-positioned to move expeditiously to invest federal dollars and inject good common sense to where it's most needed."
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