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Ellen Glanz Thesis

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Empowering students to have a say in their education is a great idea. It will actually make some students feel a connection to the material they 're learning. Ellen Glanz was not wrong in her conclusion about why students do the bare minimum to scrape by. Students will be more excited and interested in their classes if the curriculum is made more interesting for

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