February 17, 2006

Education Secretary Calls for Better Data

By STEPHEN BURD

Improved data on the educational progress of students are needed to help policy makers and educators devise strategies to prepare young people for college, the U.S. education secretary, Margaret Spellings, told state education officials this month at a conference sponsored by the National Governors Association and the U.S. Education Department.

The conference was designed to bring state leaders together to discuss ways to create or improve systems they can use to track students from

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