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...better yet, Mississippi's. In 2005, 89% of fourth-graders in Mississippi were rated proficient in reading--the highest percentage in the nation. But when Mississippi youngsters sat for the rigorous NAEP--the closest thing to a national gold standard--they landed at the bottom: just 18% of fourth-graders made the grade in reading. States that have a tough curriculum and correspondingly tough exams--such as California and Massachusetts--are delivering a more rigorous education, but they're setting themselves up to fail in NCLB's terms...
...remain poverty stricken despite the rest of the world's climate policy. I have sympathy for the people of Darfur, but advocating steps to stop global warming is just wishful thinking, and using the people of Darfur to further a purely political agenda is despicable. John Lifer Jr., Clinton, Mississippi...
...land in Texas is in private hands, Wagner says. But even in states with large areas of public land the turtle harvest debate has been contentious - Minnesota has grappled with the issue for over a decade. Other states have banned commercial harvesting of wild turtles -among them Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina and Alabama and just last month, Maryland. But until now, Texas was one of a handful of states that remained wide open...
...also teaming up this summer with Brad Guy, a researcher at the Hamer Center for Community Design at Pennsylvania State University and co-author of the new book Unbuilding: Salvaging the Architectural Treasures of Unwanted Houses, to launch a home rebuilding program in East Biloxi and Pearlington, Mississippi, that will use recycled yellow pine, heart pine and cypress to create stylish, middle-income houses. Once Palleroni's recycled furniture finds a home in those and other rebuilt homes, then maybe the only waste left will be those ugly FEMA trailers...
...homes more than a century ago are irreplaceable, including the virgin cypress from local swamps and antique "barge boards." Made of 2-in.-thick oak, the boards came from the sides of barges, which were built in the Midwest but got scrapped after making their way down the Mississippi River to New Orleans more than a century ago. "You couldn't buy those materials anywhere. They would be so expensive," says Bell...