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The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

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Stephanie Mueller works at a "standing" desk in an experimental classroom at Elton Hills Elementary School in Rochester, Minn. Mayo Clinic obesity researchers want to learn whether classrooms really need desks, or if being able to move around helps students fight obesity and learn at the same time. (Associated Press/Janet Hostetter)

Education goes standing-room only

Madeline Murphy Smith, [email protected] • February 5, 2016

For Ali-Borger Germann, all it took was one article in a National Education Association magazine to completely change the environment in which she taught students at City High. After Borger-Germann...