Our mission does not include teaching young people about sex or sexual orientation, and we do not believe it is Scouting's role to introduce this topic in our youth development program.

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Myron Atkin, professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, says scientists like Hawkins pushed teaching toward basic research, and away from the practical orientation that they felt was holding science education back.

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When teaching numeracy, the facilitators focus on teaching numbers and the idea of quantity, grouping and interpretation of measurement units, arithmetic operations, special forms and orientation, and content interpretation, such as reading tables and graphics.

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