The Global Search for Education: Women – Part 1
Jun05

The Global Search for Education: Women – Part 1

 “The 21st century asks colleges to re-conceive the mission of gender equality on a global level.  It also provides an opening to do this in a globally collaborative way that informs and advances all.” — Jane McAuliffe.   Photo courtesy of Tatiana Philiptchenko.  Gender equality can become a lived reality if citizens of the world continue to make it a global goal.  In The Global Search for Education: Women, I...

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The Global Search for Education: Finnish Math Lessons
May23

The Global Search for Education: Finnish Math Lessons

 “We believe that students need to develop self-confidence and trust in their ability to do math, and it is the solving of real-life, simpler problems that gives them the ability to engage in more difficult, abstract tasks.  Only the procedural understanding acquired in this manner will empower students to solve the test problems.”  — Cecilia Villabona  Research has sought to understand why more boys than girls...

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The Global Search for Education – Is the AP Worth It?
May16

The Global Search for Education – Is the AP Worth It?

 “Students need to be prepared for the extra work and make sure this fits with their overall schedule and their ability to take care of their health and well-being.”  –Denise Pope  The College Board has long claimed its gold standard AP Program can help students succeed in college, narrow the achievement gap and level the playing field for traditionally under-served high schools and students.  The program has...

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The Global Search for Education: Australia – Ticks
May09

The Global Search for Education: Australia – Ticks

 “It is imperative that a memorandum of understanding be reached between the key clinical bodies involved with diagnosis and management of this disease. Chronic, not chronic, highly infectious, not highly infectious, tick-borne, arthropod (insect)-borne, sexually transmissible, blood-borne and not.”– Dr. Andrew Ladhams Tick-borne illness advocates from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Croatia,...

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The Global Search for Education: UK – Ticks
May07

The Global Search for Education: UK – Ticks

Some British experts think as many as 20 percent of the UK Lyme disease infections arise from Brits acquiring the disease while vacationing in Lyme disease hot spots such as the United States (New England) and parts of Central Europe. Lyme (Borreliosis), Anaplasmosis /Ehrlichiosis, Babesiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Bartonella, Tularemia, and more recently, Borrelia miyamotoi (a distant relative of Lyme Borreliosis) are...

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