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When you buy meat at the store, it comes on a little foam tray- which most everyone tosses out. Annette Mitchell is an art professor at Plymouth State College and she's created a new print-making technique using those trays. She says it's easy for beginners and can produce great art in the hands of the more experienced.

Also, we hear a story from out favorite storysmith, Rebecca Rule. This one's titled "Mina Runs for Selectman."

With the recent passage of the new federal education law, testing will increase. John Merrow, the author of "Achieving Excellence" and researched, wrote and narrated the "Frontline" segment "Testing Our Schools." He told NHPR's Jon Greenberg that tests work well when they have a tight connection to the courses that students take. The problem is, Merrow says, few states invest the time and money to do that. But Merrow emphasized that in some places, teachers and administrators welcome standards and standardized tests.