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Local youth study a new subject: their high schools
UCLA Today - February 12, 2009
By Arif Shaikh
Educators, policymakers and other adults grapple nonstop with the educational and social issues that affect youth. But gone are the days when adults can do this job alone — without engaging and learning from the experiences and insights of young people who are, after all, the ones most directly affected.
Two UCLA professors from the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies are turning the old paradigm on its head by engaging young people in research on school and community issues that directly affect them and their peers and then learning from them.
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