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To: KLP who wrote (15217)	11/5/2003 3:49:02 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793718

This ones for all you "Hillary Haters." I know you are out there! _________________________________ Inside Politics By Greg Pierce THE WASHINGTON TIMES Hillary's 'swamp' At a Senate committee meeting on Head Start last week, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton made a case for why Congress should stop a nationwide test of Head Start 4-year-olds, which is already under way. The test is "culturally insensitive," said the New York Democrat and former first lady. For instance, she said — pointing to a big poster with drawings of a dam, a river, a valley and a swamp — disadvantaged 4-year-olds are being asked to look at the pictures and "point to swamp." This is an unfair question for urban children, such as those in the Bronx, because they are unlikely to have ever seen a swamp, said Mrs. Clinton, who asked for the test to be delayed until it can be "fully vetted by experts." Wade F. Horn, assistant secretary for families and children at the Department of Health and Human Services, which has oversight of Head Start, says there's no reason for the national test to get bogged down over some pictures. First of all, the "swamp" question comes directly from a Head Start test developed during the Clinton administration, he said. Second, when Head Start 4-year-olds were asked in 2001 to "point to swamp," "urban children were slightly more likely to get that item correct than rural children," said Mr. Horn, noting that 22.4 percent of urban children picked the right picture, compared with 20.2 percent of rural children. "So much for the urban-bias theory," he said. washtimes.com