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Saturday, January 19, 2013

What kids want Obama to do in second term

What kids want Obama to do in second term:


What kids want Obama to do in second term



What do young people want President and Congress to do over the next four years? Here some of them tell us in a video that is a project of The Children’s Leadership Council, a national coalition of child and youth organizations. The video was produced by SparkAction.

How test anxiety affected a young boy


In this era of high-stakes standardized tests, a subject that gets short shrift is test anxiety and how it affects young students.
Text anxiety is a type of performance anxiety, and it can severely affect a student's ability to do well. Here is one mother's story of how test anxiety affected her elementary school son and what she did about it. Written by Kathleen Muthler, who is a teacher in Pennsylvania, this appeared on the website @thechalkface.com.
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