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<p>THE STATE Department of Education continued its compassionate approach to high-stakes testing yesterday with the publication of a ''multiple pathways'' strategy for students who are denied diplomas after failing the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test. With enough support, the only thing that should stand between a student and a diploma is individual effort.</p>

A second-grade teacher stirred debate on the state’s standardized tests last night when she told school board candidates at an election forum that she would flunk Missouri Assessment Program exams. "I’ve taken the test," Emily Stephens said of the fourth-grade social studies exam. "I would have flunked the test. With a master’s degree I would have flunked the test completely." Stephens then asked the candidates why people assume that MAP scores are low because students and teachers aren’t performing. She suggested the test is just too hard. Stephens’ comments came during a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters...

Rense.com CFR Calls For 'An Imperial America' By Jeffrey Steinberg Executive Intelligence Review LarouchePub.com 3-13-2 The New York Council on Foreign Relations, the American branch office of the British Royal Institute for International Affairs, has issued a public call for a full-scale war on Iraq, as a stepping stone to imperial world government. The declaration for war and empire appeared in the form of two articles in the March/April 2002 Foreign Affairs, the Council's bi-monthly journal.  In addition to the publication of the articles--by Kenneth Pollack, deputy director of the CFR's national security studies program, and Sebastian Mallaby, former...

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