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Finally, special assistance schools aim to improve the lives of their students by
providing services tailored to very specific needs of individual students. Such schools
include tutoring schools and schools to assist the learning of handicapped children.
In the United Kingdom, such schools are called independent schools, and certain kinds
of privately owned schools are confusingly called public schools.
Text 4. Student activism
Student ac ti vism is work done by students to effect political or societal change. It has
often focused on making changes in schools, such as increasing student influence over
curriculum or improving educational funding, but in some settings, student groups have had
a major role in broader political events. For example, student groups in many countries have
played leading roles in forcing change in governments they viewed as oppressive.
In the United States, student activism is often understood as a form of youth activism
that is specifically oriented toward change in the American educational system. Movements
in this area vary widely in subject, size, and success, with all kinds of students in all kinds
of educational s ettings participating. Popular is s ues include student voice, s tudent rights ,
school funding, anti-racism in education, tuition increases (in colleges), and many other
areas.
Student activism in the United States dates to the beginning of public education, if not
before. The best early historical documentation comes from the 1930s. The American Youth
Congress was a student-led organization in Washington, DC, which lobbied the US
Congress against racial discrimination and for youth programs. It was heavily supported by
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
The 1960s saw student activists gaining increased political prominence. One highlight
of this period was Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a student-led organization that
focused on schools as a social agent that simultaneously oppresses and potentially uplifts
society. SDS eventually spun off the Weather Underground. Another successful group was
Ann Arbor Youth Liberation, which featured students calling for an end to state-led
education. Also notable was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which fought
against racism and for integration of public schools across the US. These specific
organizations closed in the mid-1970s.

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