How to help disengaged teenagers learn

OECD Education & Skills TopClass Podcast by OECD TopClass Podcast

Feb 7, 202500:31:14Education

How can you help disengaged teenagers rediscover their passion for learning? In this episode of Top Class, Rebecca Winthrop, a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution...

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