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Moms in Scarsdale, New York took to the streets this month to protest too many tests. Meanwhile, the House just passed President Bush’s education plan,which requires annual reading and math tests in grades 3-8. It’s a nationwide debate over testing and accountability … and how much is enough. Laura's guests are Lil Tuttle, the Education Director of the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute, and Dennis Murphy, a lobbyist for the NH chapter of the National Education Association.

Bill Morrissey?singer, songwriter, and sometime novelist?recently moved back to New Hampshire. He has a new CD out on Philo Records, called ?Things I Saw Or Thought I Saw;? the title was inspired by a line from a Robert Frost poem. Morrissey joined us on the Front Porch to talk about how his songwriting has evolved over a thirty-year career, and his return to the Granite State.

Historic preservationists are fighting a battle in Milford.

The town's only granite house, one of a handful in the state, faces an uncertain future.

It stands in the way of a housing development for the elderly.

Jim Garvin is New Hampshire's architectural historian.

He described the house to NHPR's Mark Bevis.

From trendy new ostrich ranchers to good old-fashioned dairy farms--Granite State agriculture is changing. We'll find out what the pressures are on today's farmers, and how our state's small operations stay competitive--in a 21st century global market. Laura checks in with Steve Taylor, NH's Commissioner of Agriculture (www.state.nh.us/agric/aghome.html).

Margaret-Love Denman has written a new book for aspiring novelists. ?Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process? includes practical advice on the literary craft from 23 authors. The book is published by Alpha Press. Denman is a published author herself, and director of the creative writing program at UNH.