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A teacher made a student cry in a good way — by telling him test scores aren’t everything.

When you’re a kid, kind words from a caring adult can make such a lasting impression. Schools can have so much at stake with their testing results, they often inadvertently transfer that pressure onto the students. That’s exactly what happened to Indiana third-grader Rylan as he was gearing up for something most kids dread: standardized […]