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Tenn. school shooting suspect to be tried as adult (AP) Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:58 PM PDT AP - A teenager charged with fatally shooting a classmate in a school cafeteria in Knoxville, Tenn., will be tried as an adult.

Kindergarten Tests and the Importance of Play (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 08 Apr 2009 01:47 PM PDT U.S. News & World Report - Standardized testing has hit kindergarten big-time, as principals and superintendents push reading and math curricula into earlier grades to improve the odds that students will later pass standardized tests that gauge school performance. But kindergarten tests are almost certainly counterproductive, according to a new report from the Alliance for Childhood, an advocacy group in College Park, Md., called "Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School. ...

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