Jolie McCullough, Cronkite News Service//February 21, 2011//

[caption id="attachment_33802" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Dezi Meadows, left, and Christina Wright work with building blocks in Barnhizer’s kindergarten class. Barnhizer began the year with more than 30 students in her classroom....

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