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      More Tests Please

      Posted by okami

      No Child Left Behind has created the wrong kind of debate about testing. Given the lack of new funding, many states are jiggering their tests to obscure the failure of poorly performing schools and undermining the accountability that was the core goal of the program. Others are attempting to opt out of the program altogether. The process is wasteful, confusing to students, and fails to produce the information that education enterprises badly need to ensure continuous improvement in what they do

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    • Ex-Fla. official facing fed porn charges

      Posted by okami from Yahoo News!

      The former spokesman for Florida's child welfare agency paid two 16-year-old boys for sexually explicit photos of themselves and then brokered the images to overseas pornographers, according to a complaint filed Monday by federal prosecutors.

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    • I Am A Little Beauty Queen

      Posted by Orato

      This is the story of 6-year-old beauty queen Regan Licciardello, who has won 400 trophies and 200 crowns! The mom comes across as human – not a monster – and misguided, at the same time. The voice of the kid is something you don’t get to hear every day. I like it because it makes me go “hmmm”.

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    okami

    Member since Aug 2008

    former US Marine, retired police; now alternately protected and terrorized by gangs of cats

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