Model U.N. Breathes Life Into Often Dry Subject Areas
To become experts on their countries, students delve into research.
When Sakinah Smith entered high school, her main worries were her hair and nails, and, of course, her grades.
Now, in her third year of participating in a global-studies initiative here at Brooklyn College Academy, the 12th grader has immersed herself in the heftier problems facing her contemporaries around the world. Her research on war, disease, poverty, and the scarcity of freshwater supplies has opened the teenager’s eyes to the realities of life in the developing world and dwarfed her own concerns. It has also brought greater depth to her studies at the public high school, where she is this year’s valedictorian.
“I was so closed in my own little world,” she said recently. “You start out feeling like only your needs matter, … but now I realize my issues...
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