Ginger Beebe, Arkansas’s First Lady, believes that elementary students in Arkansas need to know more about our world, its people, their customs, and their surroundings. In that spirit, she has continued her partnership with students from the Clinton School of Public Service. These students take Flat Stanley, the familiar children’s book character, with them on their journeys around the globe to learn and report back to Arkansas’s elementary students.
“I’m excited to work for a fourth year with students from the Clinton School of Public Service in helping to promote a love of reading and writing for Arkansas school children," the First Lady said. “Flat Stanley” is a story that makes learning fun for young children, and this partnership gives us the opportunity to educate students about different cultures across the world.”
Clinton School students will each take a Flat Stanley, made and provided by the First Lady and her staff, all over the world this summer as they travel to their international public-service project destinations. They will keep Flat Stanley journals and take pictures with him in locations far and wide. This Web site allows users to learn more about the countries that Flat Stanley and the students visit.
In late May, thirty-seven Clinton School students traveled to all six inhabited continents (with the exception being Antarctica), and each took Flat Stanley along. Thirty-five students traveled abroad, while two worked with international organizations in North America, based in New York City, and San Antonio, Texas. The Clinton School of Public Service is an independent entity of the University of Arkansas System, working in collaboration with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. |
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