In this era of high-stakes standardized tests, a subject that gets short shrift is test anxiety and how it affects young students, the Washington Post reports. 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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