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There’s nothing like a little outside motivation as a kid to get your grades up in school. For 11 year-old Kenley Curtin, that’s exactly what helped raise her math grade and it’s all thanks to a ...

In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears. They ...