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DAVID EULITT/The Kansas City Star--04192005--CPS CLASSROOM--Jessica Slaughter, 12, a sixth-grade student at Ridgeview Elementary School in Olathe, uses an electronic keypad and transmitter to select her answer in a quiz on Roman history in Neil Shepherd's class. The keypads are part of the use of electronic technology in the school's Classroom Response System (CPS).____cutline: Jessica Slaughter, 12, a sixth-grade student at Ridgeview Elementary School in Olathe, uses an electronic keypad and transmitter to select her answer in a quiz on Roman history in Neil Shepherd's class. The keypads are part of the use of electronic technology in the school's Classroom Response System (CPS).

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