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How to help the revive the Education system.

Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' children are initiated into the sport of stickball at an early age, with many having personal sets of stickball sticks or "kapuchas" as these two young boys attending the World Series of Stickball, Friday, July 12, 2024, in Choctaw, Miss. The games are physical competitive contests between communities that historically were used to keep the tribe's warriors in shape for warfare and hunting. Depending on age, the modern younger contests are co-ed, while the older adults play in separate contests. Photo: Associated Press/AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

How to help the revive the Education system.

Author, entrepreneur, and pioneering voice Christine Mendis joins WFEA’s The Morning Updates Host Jeff Chidester to discuss ‘knowledge’ and what is lost in our approach to education. Christine shares an 8th-grade Final Exam from 1890 to help illustrate how far the USA has drifted.

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