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List because a below average standardized test scores. vicky marshall helped convince people they needed to try this and make it work. >> their biggest concerns were around how are you going to assign a grade point average. >> but changing course is not easy. educators estimate it takes three to five years for standardized test scores to go up. so far 300 schools nationwide have tried t.half couldnt stick with it. wendy batino who helps implement this model says without strong leadership and com...

children living with bin laden talks about living next to the worlds most wanted man. im hala gorani at cnn world headquarters in tonight for don lemon. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin tonight in memphis, tennessee, a city under siege, if you will. the mississippi river keeps climbing higher and higher. this is what memphis looks like with the river at 47.5 feet. how high it goes wont be known for several days, but experts predict it wont be more than another foot. there is no ...

>> reporter: unlike traditional schools kids move up any time theyre ready. >> how many of you have gone up a level this year? wow. >> reporter: the entire school district has been on an academic watch list because below average standardized test schools. mother and school board president vicky marshall helped convince parents they needed to try this and make it work. >> their biggest concerns were around how are you going to assign a grade point average. >> reporter: changing course is not easy...

street youre seeing him on "time" magazine with an "x" through him. youre seeing it on computer screens, television screens, newspapers and you may be seeing images that go all the way back to september 11th which were so traumatic. some very young children might not get it but theyre kind of being exposed to it. if your child asks you, how do you -- what do you say? >> you be honest and you basically explain how osama bin laden was a bad guy and he killed lots of women, children, men,...

repeat it for the rest of the day because we have so much news. i wondered yesterday, could we have more? we do. >> every hour there are new developments as we continue to get 24 hours, 36 hours on from the killing of osama bin laden. >> we have former secretary of state condoleezza rice, former secretary donald rumsfeld, interviewing a navy seal who will explain how the operation went down. >> well take you inside the compound and show you what it looks like. critical developments thi...

this is a fox news alert on a developing story tonight. former nfl quarterback steve mcnair has been found shot to death in tennessee. the details are still coming in but this is what we know. police are confirming the body of the 36-year-old super bowl con tenor and former mvp was found in an apartment in downtown nashville. also with him a woman they have yet to identify. the circumstances surrounding the death are still unclear. we will bring you the latest updates as we get them. i...