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Classroom playtime quickly becoming a fantasy.

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From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Date: 20041123
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Byline: Barbara Mahany

CHICAGO _ One recent morning in Room 103 at the Bret Harte Elementary School, Play-Doh bested puzzles (in a vote of 12-3) as the activity du jour _ as rousing as elections get here in the Land of the Little People.

And into that melee of 3- and 4-year-olds stepped a woman who has devoted most of her grown-up life to making the rest of the world, certainly the teachers of young children, grasp the profound work of play.

Alphabets and test scores, she warns, are threatening to shove the block corner and pretend kitchen out the door and down the ...

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