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Project-based learning engages students, garners results

May 6, 2009 /

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Students in a South Texas classroom had taken on the role of employees at CleanWater Tech, a fictional U.S. company that produces water filtration technology, and were poring over the economic indicators of various unnamed countries, trying to decide into which nation the company should expand.

When asked by Ilene Kantrov, director of the Center for Educational Resources and Outreach at the Education Development Center, what they would tell an administrator who visited the classroom during their work on the project, one student piped up, "I’d tell them they should leave, because there’s learning going on and they don’t want to get in the way."

By Jennifer Nastu

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