RIP: Maya Angelou
June 26th, 2014 Last month we lost the great Maya Angelou. Our guest blogger, Tom Schnabel, had the pleasure of […]
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15 Facts on South Korean Student Flows
June 19th, 2014 When I first traveled to South Korea in 2001 and visited with officials at the Ministry of
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IRAN: Happiness, Stealthy Freedom, and Faces of Iran on FB
June 12th, 2014 Happiness is… If you’ve been following the news from Iran recently, you must have heard the one
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Student Loans: Up in Smoke!
June 5th, 2014 Imagine you had a fairy godmother or godfather for that matter who with the wave of a
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Chinese student challenge: How to support them in succeeding in the U.S. educational system
May 29th, 2014 On May 20, 2014, Jasmin Saidi-Kuehnert, President & CEO of the Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute (ACEI) and
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Russian Rock: Then and Now
May 23rd, 2014 I was Music Director of KCRW and host of Morning Becomes Eclectic during the 1980s and we
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25 Interesting Facts About Hungary
May 15th, 2014 Several years ago I had the pleasure of traveling to Budapest to attend the EAIE Conference. The
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US & IRAN: Opening Doors to Education
Facts about Iran Education General License G May 8th, 2014 Did you know that despite the strained and hostile relations
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Dispatches from the NAGAP Conference in San Diego, CA
May 2nd, 2014 Coronado Bridge, San Diego The 27th annual conference of the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals (NAGAP)
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Easter Island’s Only Concert Pianist
April 24th, 2014 Mahani Teave: Easter Island’s only classical pianist I recently saw a BBC feature by a Santiago-based correspondent
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20 Interesting Facts about Mongolia
April 17th, 2014 Mongolia lies in central Asia between Siberia on the north and China on the south. It is
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UNITED KINGDOM: 6 Facts about the New GCSE Grading System
April 10th, 2014 When I was a secondary student in the UK, we were preparing ourselves in Form V for