4 December 2008
No Fair. GSUSA Changes Change it Up!
Posted by admin under: Girl Scout Reorganization .
Back in August I got a little tired of not understanding where the push to change Girl Scouts was coming from and I stumbled across the research portion of the national web site and found the Change It Up! study that GSUSA is using as the reason why they’ve decided to focus on leadership. Based on various comments in the media, some of which I’ve noted on this blog, it seems clear that GSUSA had decided to focus on leadership and then went out and commissioned a study to back up the new direction. Okay. Fine. Having some justification on your side makes sense if you want to convince people to move in a new direction. I’m just a annoyed that the flurry of recent stories, including this one from a Chicago bilingual paper, imply that the study was the genesis of the change instead of the justification for it.
I went back to the national site to refresh my memory of some of the statistics I had cited in my previous blog post and discovered that the study has been changed. The wording, new bright pictures, and somewhere more than a dozen pages fell out of the report. Because I was analyzing it, I had saved a copy as the GSUSA had allowed and still does allow from their site. So, you can see the original (or at least back in August version) here. The current version is here.
It just seem a little sneaky to change the study like that although the older version was more dreary and the new one has cute clip art. The study was done, by the way, about a year and a half ago even though all the recent stories make it sound like it was just released.
- Change it Up! Basis of GSUSA Changes
- Different Take on Journeys Transformation
- New GSUSA Study Finds Learning by Doing
- Declining Interest in Girl Scouts – By Parents
- New Mass. CEO Pushes Girl Scout Message
