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FROM THE EDITOR: Why Standardized Tests Are Failing Students, Society
By Martin Davis
The anniversary of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings are a reminder not only of one of the great moral challenges in the world, but of the damage done to students by abandoning moral education.
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