What’s good for children

  America’s business community was an early advocate of reform and a prime mover in the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, which required the states to improve public schooling for all students. In an editorial, The New York Times supports efforts by the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executives from the nation’s largest companies, to make sure Congress maintains a “transparent accountability system” in the NCLB law.