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More Schools and Districts Not Meeting Federal Standards

By Amy Quinton on Monday, May 22, 2006.

State education officials released testing results showing that more schools and more school districts may face sanctions under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

The results showed that 44-percent of elementary and middle school children did not make adequate yearly progress, or AYP, based on reading and math tests for grades three through eight.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Amy Quinton talked to Education Commissioner Lyonel Tracy who had a different take on the poor results.

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Flooding in New Hampshire

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About a third of this dam was destroyed during flooding, displacing millions of gallons of water from an eight acre pond in Deerfield. (Liz Bulkley, NHPR)

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Flooding in New Hampshire

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A normally sleepy brook in Deerfield overflows with water from a nearby beaver pond. (Liz Bulkley, NHPR)

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Manchester's Millyards Clean Up After Floods

By Debra Daigle on Monday, May 22, 2006.

The floods of 2006 may be behind us, but the clean-up and restoration efforts have just begun.

NHPR Correspondent Debra Daigle tells us of the work being done at one of the hardest-hit areas in the state: The Historic Riverfront Millyard in Manchester.

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Trusting the Government

By Shay Zeller on Monday, May 22, 2006.

The recent floods in New Hampshire continue to try the patience and budgets of many towns across the state. We'll look at the balance between trust and mistrust in the government when a crisis occurs, and what kinds of events take place that can result in the scales tipping. We'll also review some of the moments in American history when citizens' trust was sorely breached. Our guests are Michael Dupre, Professor of Sociology at Saint Anselm College and research fellow at The New Hampshire Institute of Politics, and Paul Gronke, Associate professor and Chair of Political Science at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

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Maybe Baby

By Laura Knoy on Monday, May 22, 2006.

To Breed or Not To Breed! That is the question pondered by a new generation of young adults- who no longer assume it’s their duty to propagate the species. We’ll get into how Americans make these decisions today and the many different paths they choose- options that were not available or not acceptable just a few decades ago! Laura's guest is Lori Leibovich, Senior Editor at Salon.com whose writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Elle, Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. She is the author of several books and served as editor for "Maybe Baby", a collection of essays on the decision to be or not to be a parent.

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