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Testing helps assess progress, but legislatures are mandating that kids be held back for failing, and some states are sanctioning schools for low scores.
The NYT depicts the U.N. report as striking in its institutional candor: Although commissioned by the current Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, the report criticizes him and his predecessor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, for failing to take decisive action as the peacekeeping troops on the ground in Rwanda reported back about the Hutu militia's plans for ethnic attacks against Tutsis and about their accumulating weapons caches towards that end.
But failing to be a hero did not make him a villain.
The announcement appeased some critics who have accused Clinton of hypocrisy for failing (until now) to take this step.
According to the Washington Post , critics faulted the CD-ROM for failing 1) to address the cultural impact of the African diaspora; 2) to provide a definitive list of the voyages; and 3) to mention the names of any of the millions of Africans transported to America on slave ships.