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Article: Educational entrepreneurship at Stony Brook: strengthening public education, public health, & a public university. (Perspectives).
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- Liberal Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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JASON RICHARDSON, now a senior in high school on Long Island, can remember the precise moment when his mother arrived in the auditorium in which he, as a junior, was midway through a presentation on safer sex and teenage pregnancy. "Well, there's a lot more I could say," Jason told his audience, "but my mother just walked in." Most high school students could probably understand Jason's comment and the passing awkwardness of his mother's presence, but few would have the opportunity to share his experience. He was, at sixteen, giving a talk at a conference on the campus of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and his listeners included (in addition to his ...