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A High School Course on Public Policy, with Tim Northrop (Saratoga Springs High School, NY)

May 06, 2023

How can high school courses help adolescents learn to carefully analyze public policies and summarize their analyses in writing? In this episode, veteran teacher Tim Northrop explains how his public policy courses foster these important skills. He also discusses how these courses support students' capacities in media literacy and civil discourse - and how these skills could be integrated into other courses.

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