These secrets include a mix of branding fundamentals and fiction writing basics.

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Classes will teach young people the basics of song-writing, video production, marketing and management alongside their usual curriculum studies.

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But refugee girls are now being taught the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, in a school sponsored by an organisation that has campaigned for women's rights in Afghanistan.

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As for the lack of teaching time, how about cutting out some of the nonessential curriculum, such as bike safety, that currently takes up much of the school day, and refocusing on the basics, such as reading, writing and arithmetic?

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