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The No Child Left Behind Act pushed by President George W. Bush unintentionally exacerbated the problem. It required each state to ensure that its students achieve" universal proficiency" in reading and math—but allowed each to define what that meant. The result was that many states made their job easier by setting their bar lower. This race to the bottom resulted in a Lake Wobegon world where every state declared that its kids were better than average. Take the amazing case of Mississippi. According to the standards it set for itself,89% of its fourth - graders were proficient or better in reading, making them the best in the nation. Yet according to the random sampling done every few years by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test, a mere 18 % of the state’s fourth- graders were proficient, making them the worst in the nation. Even in Lake Wobegon that doesn’t happen. Only in Americ

a. The ThomasB. Fordham Institute, led by reformer Chester Finn Jr. , has been analyzing state standards for more than a decade and concludes, "Two - thirds of U. S. children attend schools in states with mediocre standards or worse. "
In order to meet the requirement set the No Child Left Behind Act, every stateA. set lower assessment standards for students.B. worked extremely hard to help its students.C. assessed its students by way of sampling.D. focused all attention on reading and mat

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The attention of the public was first drawn to the dangers threatening the great old houses and castles of Britain by the death of lord Lothian, who left his great seventeenth - century house to the Trust together with the 4,500 -acre park and estate surrounding it. This gift attracted wide publicity and started the Trust’s Country House Scheme . Under this scheme, with the help of the Government and the general public, the Trust has been able to save and make accessible to the public about one hundred and fifty of these old houses, usually at a very small charge. Who was Lord Lothian

A. He was a government official.
B. He was a seventeenth -century noble.
C. He was the owner of a seventeenth - century house.
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The idea of common schools that adopt the same curriculum and standards isn’t new. It first arose in the 1840s, largely owing to the influence of the reformer Horace Mann. But the U. S. Constitution leave public education to the states, and the states devolve much of the authority to local school districts, of which there are now more than 13,000 in the U. S. The Federal Government Drovides less than 9% of the funding for K - 12 schools. That is why it has proved impossible thus far to create common curriculum standards nationwide. In 1989, President George H. W. Bush summoned the nation’s governors to Charlottesville, V

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