The Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School
In the fall of 2007, the Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School opened in Brooklyn, New York. The school's mission is prepare informed, skilled, courageous civic leaders and is named after Kurt Hahn because he embodied those values.
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