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Sandy Hook 911 calls to be released
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Some audio recordings of 911 calls from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting will be released Wednesday afternoon. The calls, made to Newtown, Connecticut, police, are scheduled to be made available to the media on CDs at 2 p.m. ET. The release of the recordings will be administered by the attorneys for the Town of Newtown at their offices in Danbury. The Associated Press had challenged authorities' refusal to release the 911 tapes. Last week, Connecticut Superior Court Judge Eliot Prescott upheld the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission's ruling to release calls related to the December 14, 2012 shooting. A state attorney had tried to block the release to shield the victims' families. The massacre at Sandy Hook left 26 people dead, including 20 children, making it the second-deadliest shooting in U.S. history.
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In Other News After deeming the Obamacare website mostly fixed, President Obama went on the offensive yesterday. He hit the road to deliver a message: stop worrying about the website and start talking about Obamacare's benefits. Obama kicked off a three-week public relations surge. He acknowledged that the October 1 launch was fumbled. But he invited the nation to help him relaunch the effort. When it comes to mathematics, reading and science, young people in Shanghai are the best in the world, according to a global education survey released Tuesday. The United States ranked 36th, performing below the OECD average in mathematics with 481 points, and a score indistinguishable from the average for reading and science. The findings are part of the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (or PISA) -- a leading survey of education systems conducted every three years by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a grouping of the world's richest economies. More than half a million students, aged 15 and 16, sat a two-hour exam last year as part of the study. The pupils came from 65 countries representing 80% of the global economy. Part of the reason pupils do so well in Shanghai, according to the OECD's deputy director of education, Andreas Schleicher, is that they have the drive to fulfill their potential.
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