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School testing: Vocabulary, learning strategies are keys to success

By Cathy Grimes
Newport, VA

Chalk raced across the blackboard in Linwood Jenkins' class as the sixth-grade teacher struggled to keep up with the barrage of answers students shouted at him.

His Huntington Middle School in Virginia social studies classroom was not a quiet place. Students filled in maps, flipped through notebooks and peppered their teacher with answers to his equally fast questions.
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