One of the tenets of No Child Left Behind is that it requires states to report test results for individual racial and ethnic groups, a process called disaggregation.

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Earlier, he said ethnic Albanian rebels must be convinced that the reform process they say they want can be achieved by democratic means.

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The process failed over whether Nepal should be divided into federal states that would also have an ethnic identity.

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In the process, the leaders in these councils, who hail from Syria's different religious and ethnic groups, are developing political skills, cultivating local constituencies and learning through trial and error the business of governing.

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Protracted though the judicial process may be, Fiji is finally settling some important scores with those who sought to establish an ethnic supremacist state in the midst of the South Pacific four years ago.

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