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...heart. If Islam is truly a religion of justice and humanity, then change must come from the so-called street. There should be outrage in the community that matches the reaction to the Muhammad cartoons?and that outrage should be directed at the perpetrators. Let that be Islam's test. Don Kang Speicher, Germany...
...Child Left Behind law, which established strict standards for measuring students' progress, the Bush administration is finally beginning to show some leniency. Last week, the Department of the Education announced it would allow two states, Tennessee and North Carolina, to get credit for improvements in individual student test scores, even if the students aren't yet passing the state exam. For example, a North Carolina school will now get credit if a student's scores improve from 40 to 65 (on a scale of 100) from third grade to fourth. Before this change, the school could get credit only...
...This change is one in a series of moves over the last year by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings intended to placate critics of NCLB, the education law passed in 2002 that requires states to test their students in math and reading in grades three through eight, and once more in high school. The law requires states to make lists of schools that score badly on state tests and allows students to transfer out of the worst schools. While the law passed with overwhelming majorities in Congress, many school superintendents, principals and teachers - as well as politicians - from across the country...
...leeway in complying with the law. But as support has flagged among educators and in state legislatures, the Education Department has shown signs of leniency. It is now considering allowing states to create special exams for students with disabilities, rather than mandating those students to take the traditional state tests. The law originally required school districts to allow students to transfer from a school if its test scores lagged for two straight years; now those schools don't have to provide transfers for those students if they are offered free tutoring instead. And the Department is allowing some failing school...
...concerned that the Department of Education is going too far in relaxing the No Child Left Behind standards. Mike Petrilli, who worked in the Education Department in Bush's first term, is concerned that states like Missouri have recently lowered the scores students need in order to pass state tests. He also complains that the Education Department has done little to enforce a provision in the law that requires all teachers to either have a degree or pass a competency test in the subjects they teach. "There's been a lot of concern that Secretary Spellings and her office have...