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Some students at Walt Whitman High School in Montgomery County will be retaking a portion of their AP Spanish exams after learning that a section of the exams has been invalidated.

There was a technical glitch in administering the free-response portion of the exam. As a result, some students may have received more than the allotted testing time for that section of the exam, according to a letter students received from Educational Testing Services, which administers the test on behalf of the College Board.

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Spelling Bee champs, tech wizards, guerrilla filmmakers and Broadway stars: welcome to another edition of our monthly round-up of the latest articles and multimedia features published on NYTimes.com about young people.    

“Things to See” by Brian, 16, from Hauppauge, N.Y., is the ninth of 12 winning poems in our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest.    

Virginia lawmakers approved school reforms earlier this year that included a new A-F system of grading individual schools. Gov. Bob McDonnell championed the change, saying it was an easy way for parents to understand how well their children's schools were actually doing. Critics think otherwise.

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Who has been compiling a huge database of calling logs of Americans’ domestic communications for at least six years?    

What do you think will be the “song of summer”? What are you listening to these days? Why?    

Where should the semicolon in this paragraph go?    

A recent post by Joanne Yatvin argued against ability groupings of students, saying:

Teaching to the presumed level of a whole class never works as well as hoped because students still have significant differences in work habits, paces of learning, and outside of school experiences. But there is another, more serious problem: the effects on students in the low level classes. Those kids know who they are, why they are there, and resent it. Other kids know, too. In the end, low-level classes can be a self-fulfilling prophecy: "Everybody thinks I'm dumb. I'll show them just how dumb I can be!"

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This word has appeared in 141 New York Times articles in the past year.    

As we’ve experimented with the C.C.S.S. over the last two years, we’ve been aware of how politically charged their implementation has become. Here’s what we’ve done and why. Please tell us your thoughts and describe your experiences with the standards so far.