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LESSON TWO America’s Exam Anxiety Daniel Mcginn Inside Chicago’s top-ranked Whitney Young High School, the posters started appearing last December. “Let’s Be # 1!”“Give it 110%!”Usually this sort of rah-rah propaganda supports the basketball team, but this campaign by the principal had a different aim: urging kids to score high on the Illinois Goal Assessment Program , a standardized tests that students would take in February . Tests are nothing new to the kids at Whitney Young---they already take three other batteries of standardized