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How to get kids thinking about what it means to be a good citizen

NPR | By LA Johnson
Published January 26, 2021 at 6:00 AM EST
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Updated June 30, 2022 at 10:47 PM ET

This comic, by NPR's LA Johnson, is based on interviews by education correspondents Anya Kamenetz and Cory Turner, who spoke with Ashley Rogers Berner and Hasan Kwame Jeffries for NPR's Life Kit podcast.

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