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Monday, November 16, 2009

Exercise balls get education rolling -- latimes.com


Exercise balls get education rolling -- latimes.com:

"Reporting from Chicago - Donna Yehl's fourth-grade students bob behind their desks, heads nodding up and down as if the children were on the deck of a ship.

But they aren't fidgeting.

The two dozen children in Yehl's Elgin, Ill., classroom read and write -- in fact, do all of their classwork -- perched on exercise balls."