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NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on the end of "Social Promotions" in the Chicago school system. Under this policy, students were graduated to high school even if they did not meet eighth grade graduation standards. Now students will only be able to graduate to high school if they meet academic requirements.

Today is Cinco de Mayo, a day of celebration for Mexican-Americans, and among the foods found at fiestas today is a dish called menudo, which is prepared from tripe. Tripe is the inner lining of a cow's stomach. NPR's Ina Jaffe sent us this report about a California company that manufactures menudo in a can.

Bobby Hill reviews Casandra Wilson's current cd New Moon Daughter. It is a collection of songs by contemporary songwriters done with a hushed dirgeful voice. (6:30) THE CD IS CALLED NEW MOON DAUGHTER BY CASANDRA WILSON ON BLUENOTE RECORDS. (IN S

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports...republicans on capitol hill are sturggling to come up with a way to pay for the temporary gas tax repeal they want to vote into law. And democrats want to make sure consumers get the benefits of any tax cut. Democrats also are trying to come up with a way to bring to a vote..legislation to raise the minimum wage.

Noah Adams speaks with mountain climber Jon Krakauer about his experience last week on Mt. Everest. Krakauer and his team were caught near the peak when a storm hit on Friday, killing at least 9 climbers. Krakauer, author of "Into the Wild" (Villard: New York, 1996) and a contributing editor of Outside Magazine, spoke to us from Katmandu, Nepal.

Yesterday, members of the group, Colorado State Senator Charles Duke and representatives of the FBI met face-to-face for the first time... Though the groups were separated by a barbed-wire fence, the talks signaled a degree of optimism about the possibility of a peaceful settlement.

Bob Dole, as everyone knows, is trying to attain the presidency...in more ways than one. As commentator Bob Garfield reports, Senator Dole has a bit of difficulty pronouncing the very name of the office he seeks.

at ending the rocket attacks which Hezbollah has launched from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. During the past 48 hours, Secretary of State Warren Christopher has spoken by telephone with the Prime Ministers of Lebanon and Israel, and the Foreign Minister of Syria.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports that millions of kids in the US still receive "bilingual education" (instruction in their native languages and in English) despite widespread criticism that the practice keeps non-native English speakers at a disadvantage. Supporters of the program say kids with no English skills need help keeping up in their studies until they become proficient in English, and they want government funding for the program to continue. There's very little hard evidence on the effectiveness of bilingual ed, so the debate over the program tends to rest on ideological differences over the status of English vis a vis other languages spoken in this country.