Spellings Seeks to Cast Her Glow Over NCLB

In her three years as U.S. secretary of education, Margaret Spellings has been a celebrity contestant on “Jeopardy!,” a guest on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” and an occasional subject of Washington’s best-read gossip column.

Above all, though, she’s been the nation’s leading spokeswoman for the No Child Left Behind Act.

With one year left on the job and Congress stalled over reauthorizing the 6-year-old federal education law, the task of promoting and defending it...

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