major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and by bnsf railway. and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: afghanistan s military fought today to take back a provincial capital, the first major city captured by the taliban in 14 years. the militants stormed kunduz yesterday, in a major setback to the government. today, afghan troops and militiamen launched a counter- offensive, with u.s. air support, and a promise of more help, from president ashraf ghani, in kabul. ( translated ): afghan security force made achievements today in kunduz province. they have recaptured some parts of the government buildings. new reinforcements have reached kunduz and baghla and a battalion from the national army will get to kunduz soon. woodruff: the taliban disputed those claims of success, and later
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the president went so far as to call the change a christmas miracle. critics have said no child left behind gave too much power to washington in controlling state education policy. earlier today, we talked to dr. paul gausman, superintendent of sioux city schools gausman says he feels there was more good than bad in no child left behind , but there isis lot of anticipation and excitement leading up to these changes. mostly in regards to standdized testing but the challenges with no child left behind have to do with assessments, every state takes a different approach to assessments, students perform at different levels many states like iowa continue to change the form of the assessment, the reporting of the sessment,so its very difficult to discover, but the federal governrnnt still has to underer the previous lawaw hand out these negaitive designations to different schools and different districts based on their performance. deborah: saying it involved and not enough teac
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