Wordplay at Wilmington Middle School
UCLA student, Narbonne High graduate and Lomita resident Michael Bailey had a novel idea: print vocabulary words on P.E. T-shirts to improve test scores at Wilmington Middle School. Bailey followed up on a theory, fostered by a UCLA communications course, that people's brains latch onto "visual cues" to process information. And he applied it to the words LAUSD students often see on standardized tests, words such as "define" and "analyze."
Bailey chose the school because his mom once worked in the attendance office.
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