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Scores Rise Since ‘No Child’ Signed
The Washington Post lead with a story of elementary test scores across the country have risen since President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act. The story doesn’t reference any of the data that is used to make these conclusions. Hopefully more details will come out of the hearing tomorrow by the House subcommittee on elementary and secondary education.

U commits library to Google Search
The University of Minnesota and other Big Ten school have opened up their libraries to Google’s book indexing project. In the project the U will open its many volumes to Google to be scanned and indexed. The project is a part of Google’s mission to organize and index the world’s data for easy access. The project will cost the U nothing (but a library card).