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Rod Paige, the nation's first Black Secretary of Education and a key architect of the No Child Left Behind law, died at 92.Appointed by President George W. Bush, Paige led the Education Department from 2001 to 2005, implementing the policy that set universal testing standards, though it faced criticism for its emphasis on testing.Paige also had a distinguished career as a football coach at Jackson State University, where his team integrated a stadium in 1967, and as a superintendent in Houston, continuing his educational advocacy into 2024.
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