American RadioWorks documentary: Beyond the Blackboard: Building Character in Public Schools
A student at the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School in Forest Hills, N.Y., worked to conquer a high ropes course.
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In the 1940's British headmaster Kurt Hahn set up a wilderness school to teach the skills young men needed to survive World War II: leadership, persistence, working together. Fifty years later, Hahn's ideas inspired the founding of a network of public schools in the U.S. This American RadioWorks documentary explores the "Expeditionary Learning" approach and investigates what American schools could learn from its success.
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