IMAGINE being 11 years old in an unfamiliar school. Imagine that your home has been destroyed, that relatives are missing, that you have spent days on a roof or in a dark and terrifying stadium. Imagine knowing your new teacher could be fired and your new school closed if you and others like you don't score high enough on the statewide test. U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings should regard this scenario as she mulls whether to exempt some 200,000 displaced schoolchildren from the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. That is the national law requiring school districts to...