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1 Aug 2013
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10 things to know about Kale
July 25, 2013 A rudimentary study of the green leafy veggie. You may be wondering why I’m writing a blog about kale. After all, what has kale to do with education and evaluation? As someone living in Southern California, I’ve
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25 Jul 2013
Keepin’ It Eclectic and Worldwide!
July 18, 2013 This week’s Rhythm Planet features a wide variety of new music from around the world in many different styles. We feature some Brazilian classics from the band Azymuth and French bossa novista Nicola Conte’s new collection Viagem 5, some cool
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18 Jul 2013
10 Newsworthy Items on Education in the United Kingdom
July 11, 2013 Back when I was in school in England, the benchmark of completing secondary education was taking the external examinations known as the General Certificate of Education, Ordinary Level (GCE O’level) and /or the Certificate of Secondary Education.
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11 Jul 2013
20 Fun Facts about the 4th of July/Independence Day
July 03, 2013 On this federal holiday, also known as Independence Day, marking the Colonies’ adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, which declared independence from the Great Britain and its king, we thought it would be
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3 Jul 2013
International Credential Evaluation: A Matter of Trust
June 27, 2013 When I first entered the international education profession in 1982 as a junior level credential evaluator, there were less than 10 companies engaged in providing credential evaluation services. Today, there are more than 300 such companies spread
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27 Jun 2013
Iran: Elections and Academic Credentials Under Scrutiny
June 20, 2013 As you must have heard by now, Iranians had an election last week and cast their votes in favor of Hassan Rouhani (or Rowhani), ending the eight- year term of his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. What has caught
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20 Jun 2013
10 Facts About the Education System of Brazil
June 13, 2013 This week, we’d like to focus on Brazil, the largest country in both South American and the Latin American region. It is the world’s 5th largest country both by geographical area and by population. Brazil’s population according
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13 Jun 2013
20 Facts About Turkey
June 07, 2013 In light of the protests that have erupted in Turkey against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, we wanted to share a few facts about this country situated at the northeast end of the Mediterranean
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7 Jun 2013
The Web-based Brain: Redefining Intelligence
May 30, 2013 “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the
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30 May 2013
Top 10 States in the U.S. for International Students
May 23, 2013 “I never truly understood myself until I met the other. I never truly met the other until I got past myself. What are time and distance, but bridges to be crossed on my journey to meet the
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23 May 2013
America’s Jazz Ambassadors
May 16, 2013 During the cold war in the 1950s and 60s, when America was worried about Sputnik, ICBMs, and building bomb shelters, there was a quiet but determined cultural diplomacy going on behind the Iron Curtain. The U.S. State
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16 May 2013