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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 couldn't stick with it. wendy batino who helps implement this model says without strong leadership and community support it work work. this is how it works. the superintendent's last two, two and a half ye...

children living with bin laden talks about living next to the world's most wanted man. i'm 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 won't be known for several days, but experts predict it won't be more than another foot. there is no other place for the water to go, put quite simply. the mississippi is the watershed for everythi...

>> reporter: unlike traditional schools kids move up any time they're 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. educators estimate it takes three to five years for standardized test scores to go up. so far, 30...

street you're seeing him on "time" magazine with an "x" through him. you're 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 they're 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, and so we're celebrating the fact that this man is dead and he can't hurt anybody anymore. and s...

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. >> we'll take you inside the compound and show you what it looks like. critical developments this morning in the aftermath of osama bin laden's death. u.s. officials say intelligence officers are...