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SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2004

"It's [students'] first experience of.representative government, and if it's a joke and it doesn't matter . . . what are they learning?"

Assistant professor DANIEL MCFARLAND, on the importance of high school student government.

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    Three undergraduates talked to STANFORD about their participation in high school politics and its effect on their adult civic life. additional reporting by Spencer Porter

 
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