Letter from the editor.UPFRONT's mission is helping teachers bring current events into their classrooms, and connecting what's happening in the world with their curriculums. But, as you well know, getting teens to focus on anything is a challenge! That's why we also look for "teen angles" on current events, and in this issue we have several stories with a strong teen focus. Our cover story is about how recruiting has changed with the U.S. at war--for the recruiters, but more importantly, for the potential recruits. We focus on three teens from Kansas Kansas, state, United States Kansas (kăn`zəs), midwestern state occupying the center of the coterminous United States. It is bordered by Missouri (E), Oklahoma (S), Colorado (W), and Nebraska (N). , but read their stories and you'll you'll Contraction of you will. you'll you will or you shall you'll will see how they could just as easily be from your state. Our Supreme Court preview To see ahead of time. Page layout and word processing programs often have a preview function that lets you see how all the pages will appear before they are printed. In the days of character-based interfaces, a preview was absolutely necessary to see how different fonts would look or how also has a teen angle: An important case this term involves a Missouri Missouri, state, United States Missouri (mĭz  r`ē, –ə), one of the midwestern states of the United States. man sentenced to death for a murder he
committed at 17, giving the Justices a chance to rule on the
constitutionality of the death penalty for juvenile offenders.
on a lighter note, we have a story on making cheerleading The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. a varsity sport--although even that move has engendered some controversy. |
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