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Project-Based Learning: An Investigation of Justice in the United States

By Sam Rud | October 11, 2022

Project-Based Learning

During the last trimester of the 2021-22 school year, our Upper School students investigated our justice system in their project-based learning (PBL) class. Their learning was driven by these essential questions: What is justice? How does our justice system work? Where and to whom does our justice system fail? How can we make our system more just? …

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