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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 did regular programs featuring the latest in Soviet-era Russian pop and rock music. Back then, the Cold War was alive

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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 Soviet Union had recently collapsed and its satellite states and neighboring countries, such as Hungary, had abandoned their socialist regimes

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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 between the governments of the USA and Iran that thousands of Iranian students study in the U.S. each year? 

 In

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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) http://www.nagap.org is being held in downtown San Diego at the Grand Manchester Hyatt Hotel. Entrance to the exhibit hall With

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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 on a young woman named Mahani Teave who is Easter Island’s only classical pianist. These are the type of stories

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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 a land full of vast emptiness, nearly twice the size of Eastern Europe and with a population of 3,226,516 (2013

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World Music Teaches You Everything

April 3rd, 2014 Music tells the stories of our world I majored in Humanities as an undergraduate because it was broad-based and I could take many courses, from California Geography to Entomology to history, philosophy, languages and literature. Later, I

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ACEI turns 20 today!

April 1st, 2014 A message from the founder of ACEI President & CEO, Ms. Jasmin Saidi-Kuehnert:

 “Twenty years ago on this day in 1994, ACEI opened its doors and has since been serving the international education and student community. We couldn’t

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International Credential Evaluations: Standards and Best Practices

March 27th, 2014 Throughout the years, several U.S. international education individuals and organizations generously applied themselves in establishing guidelines for applied research and the evaluation of international educational credentials, while at the same time outlining the professional ethics and principles

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