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Intervention in the 18th General Assembly of World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) by the Young Communist League of Israel (YCLI)
Stop the war against Iran – before it begins
This Week’s News: Youth in Transition
Education
High School Dropouts, In Their Own Words
NPR, Central Falls, RI – December 16, 2010
We’ve been hearing a lot about high school dropouts because of a flurry of studies and reports that offer dire warnings about the drag dropouts can be on the economy and the nation’s future. But if you want to understand why a million kids drop out of school every year, all you have to do is ask them — which is what NPR’s Claudio Sanchez did as part of a recent reporting assignment to Central Falls Rhode Island.
Before Scrapping the National Youth Service Corps
The call for the scapping of the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC), established in 1973 by the Gowon led administration, has gained momentum since the murder of Corper Leke Akande during the recent Jos, Plateau State crisis. In fact, the call has assumed global dimension with a Facebook.com campaign tagged “JUSTICE FOR LEKE AKANDE/ SCRAP NYSC”. But the question that many of the scheme’s antagonists have not paused to consider is: whether the the cure for the headache is the severance of the head?
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