MSP (Measurement of Student Progress) tests this week and next.The fourth graders made me proud today writing stories about "glowing shoes" for most of the day. Tomorrow it's Reading and next week it's Math and more Writing.

Think on this: Since 1956, no newspaper, network, or news agency has been able to correctly predict the outcome of all thirteen presidential elections--except for one group. Every four years for a half century, the quarter million children who vote in the Weekly Reader presidential poll have been right every time.