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The Disengaged Teen Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better

Jenny Anderson

“Our education systems are shortchanging far too many teenagers. This book is brimming with insights on how to change that. It’s an engaging, evidence-based, and practical read about how to develop a generation of lifelong learners.”

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The Ezra Klein Show

It was presented as a guide to help kids learn better, feel better, and live better. The host highlighted a character from the book who transformed her engagement through projectbased studios.

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My guest today is Rebecca Winthrop, the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. Her latest book coauthored with Jenny Anderson is The Disengaged Teen, helping kids...

— Episode: ‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose o...

Episode: ‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Educatio...

It was presented as a guide to help kids learn better, feel better, and live better. The host highlighted a character from the book who transformed her engagement through projectbased studios.

"

My guest today is Rebecca Winthrop, the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. Her latest book coauthored with Jenny Anderson is The Disengaged Teen, helping kids learn better, feel better, and live better.

We have a great character in the book I've done with Jenny Anderson, the disengaged teen, named Kia. She was totally disengaged, doom scrolling in middle school, and then these studios showed up. She got super into it because she was learning history and science...

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