Testing Shifts From Memorization To Investigation in Littleton, Colo.

By Robert Rothman

Littleton, Colo.--To help her students begin working on a research project that will cap their final year at Mark Twain Elementary School here, Margie Zyzda, a 5th-grade teacher, is working with them on the topics they propose to investigate.

She takes aside one pupil, who has proposed studying the question: What are the different types of cats?

"My concern,'' Ms. Zyzda tells the student, "is that you will come...

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