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Article: Building our future: in career and technical student organization chapters across the country, young people are learning more than just skills for a future career. Guided by the career tech educators who are their advisers, they are also learning to become good citizens who will contribute greatly to their communities and to their nation. (Career and Technical Student Organizations).(information and mission statements for a number of career and technical student organizations)(Cover Story)
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- Techniques
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- February 1, 2003
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"Kids! I don't know what's wrong with these kids today," goes the song from the 1960s musical Bye Bye Birdie, but that's a sentiment that has been expressed in some form or another throughout history by many adults.
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