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University of Nebraska at Omaha

1999

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Connecting The Learning: 4-H Extension & Graduation Standards, Tamie Bremseth, Jan Hively, Jim Mitchell May 1999

Connecting The Learning: 4-H Extension & Graduation Standards, Tamie Bremseth, Jan Hively, Jim Mitchell

Project Summaries

The 1998 Minnesota Graduation Rule defines what students should master during their school years. Going beyond paper-and-pencil tests, the rule requires students to demonstrate what they can do as well as what they know. As the rule has been developed, teachers and school districts have been scrambling to adjust their programs to address the individualized learning requirements that emphasize experiential, project-based learning.


Youth Act! For Human Rights, Youth Act! For Human Rights Jan 1999

Youth Act! For Human Rights, Youth Act! For Human Rights

Project Summaries

This pilot project, funded by the Ford Foundation, establishes Youth Act! For Human Rights initiatives in two locations (Washington D.C. and Vancouver, WA), conducts social justice activism training for young people within these communities, challenges youth to put their newly learned human rights education into action, and provides a vehicle, via community advocacy summits, for them to showcase the results of their human rights activism.