The new test "has sort of thrown everyone into a tailspin, " said Janet Roberts, the director of education at Aristotle Circle, a tutoring and consulting firm.

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Save the Children missions today stretch from the Arctic Circle to the Cape of Good Hope, providing food, education and medicine.

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On average, the majority live in a vicious circle of poverty as they cannot invest and even support the education of their children.

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Started in mid-1997, it aims to help the rural poor escape the vicious circle of low income, bad nutrition, poor health and lack of education.

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The system in Ontario became "a virtuous circle, " says Marc Tucker, author of "Surpassing Shanghai, " a book about top-performing education systems.

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Through this project, the community will be encouraged to support the education of the less fortunate, orphans and street children, in order to break the vicious circle of poverty.

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