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By Carrie Wihbey, Kateshia McAfee and Laura Tavares In the world of education innovation, there’s plenty of buzz about transformation — redesigning schools, embedding career-connected learning, centering student voice. But too often, we overlook one of the most promising and flexible spaces to make this real: out-of-school time (OST). If we’re serious about reimagining education, we need to look where the time, interest, and freedom already exist. This summer, WPS Institute i

By Carrie Wihbey and Kateshia McAfee Adolescents have the power to transform communities—if we let them. Too often, though, students experience learning as passive consumers of information instead of active leaders. According to a recent study by the Brookings Institution, only 36% of middle and high school students agree or strongly agree: “At my school, I get to develop my own ideas.” What if more students were given authentic opportunities to engage with their communities,

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This post is part of our ‘Reinventing Education' blog series.

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