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January 8, 2003

Secretary of Education Rod Paige marks the first anniversary of the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act.

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Transcript: Now the law of the land says schools must tell us how students are doing, so parents—dads and moms—teachers, community people and businesspeople, will know their schools are teaching and children are learning.

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Transcript: Now all of our hard work has paid off and we're off to a start—but only a start. The finish is when every American child has a great education.

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Transcript: So this law is the right law and it's going to make us all very uncomfortable. And that's a good thing. Because we're being made uncomfortable for the sake of all students.

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