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		<title>What do Halloween, population growth, and other global issues have in common?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Halloween, and a snow day already—yes, two months before winter officially starts. About 2,000,000 east-coast customers have no electricity; countless trees broke because they hadn&#8217;t lost their leaves yet. It&#8217;s Monday, and trick-or-treating has been moved to Saturday in many &#8230; <a href="http://educationisglobal.com/2011/10/31/what-do-halloween-population-growth-and-other-global-issues-have-in-common/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationisglobal.com&#038;blog=17419475&#038;post=814&#038;subd=educationisglobal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The sun had still risen&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Wednesday when I left for school. But Thursday it rose during my commute: opposite a nearly full moon, a magnificent orange orb emerged from the fabulous purplish fog, which later burned off and morphed into a muggy, 80°F (26°C) day. &#8230; <a href="http://educationisglobal.com/2011/09/17/the-sun-had-still-risen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationisglobal.com&#038;blog=17419475&#038;post=1175&#038;subd=educationisglobal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing students for the digital AND GLOBAL world</title>
		<link>http://educationisglobal.com/2011/08/05/preparing-students-for-the-digital-and-global-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leadership Day is organized by Scott McLeod: Dangerously Irrelevant (blog on Big Think). Summary of this post: Digital, linguistic, and cross-cultural skills are required for jobs in the global economy; what jobs are actually like in global business, and suggestions for schools.  &#8230; <a href="http://educationisglobal.com/2011/08/05/preparing-students-for-the-digital-and-global-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationisglobal.com&#038;blog=17419475&#038;post=872&#038;subd=educationisglobal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Educational Success: Expectations are Key</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My experience studying abroad When I studied at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1981-82, I realized that the French system of education (and likely that of other countries) expected a lot more of students compared to the American system. Here&#8217;s what &#8230; <a href="http://educationisglobal.com/2011/06/13/educational-success-expectations-are-key/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationisglobal.com&#038;blog=17419475&#038;post=371&#038;subd=educationisglobal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where are you from? Third culture kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 02:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be easier to tell where someone was from. People immigrated and stayed in the new place, or traveled for brief periods and then went home. But more and more often, people live for extended periods in other places, &#8230; <a href="http://educationisglobal.com/2011/05/17/where-are-you-from-third-culture-kids/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationisglobal.com&#038;blog=17419475&#038;post=735&#038;subd=educationisglobal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Race to Nowhere: Can we change the cultural definition of success?</title>
		<link>http://educationisglobal.com/2011/05/04/race-to-nowhere-can-we-change-the-cultural-definition-of-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 19:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The parent organization in my town showed this film to parents; school administrators attended and answered questions. Thankfully, in my town, people can have such conversations and remain civil. The film focused on students who were highly stressed because of &#8230; <a href="http://educationisglobal.com/2011/05/04/race-to-nowhere-can-we-change-the-cultural-definition-of-success/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationisglobal.com&#038;blog=17419475&#038;post=676&#038;subd=educationisglobal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the Icelandic Volcano to a World School</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, we received daily reports about the effects of the horrible earthquake&#8230; not the ones in Christchurch or Sendai, but in Port-au-Prince. And then there was the eruption of the volcano in Iceland, which disrupted aviation for a &#8230; <a href="http://educationisglobal.com/2011/04/27/from-the-icelandic-volcano-to-a-world-school/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationisglobal.com&#038;blog=17419475&#038;post=642&#038;subd=educationisglobal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please, say &#8220;thank you.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A teacher named Dave organized a summer exchange program. My mother saw the ad in the paper, and we hosted a 17-year-old French girl for a month during the summer when I was 15. The next year, the exchange program &#8230; <a href="http://educationisglobal.com/2011/03/20/please-say-thank-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationisglobal.com&#038;blog=17419475&#038;post=547&#038;subd=educationisglobal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to give to disaster relief in Japan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making donations to help now in Japan (Save the Children, Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, etc.): Japan Disaster Relief: Where to Give Check whether your employer has a matching program. My favorite: the Donate Funds page of redcross.org. You can &#8230; <a href="http://educationisglobal.com/2011/03/15/how-to-give-to-disaster-relief-in-japan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationisglobal.com&#038;blog=17419475&#038;post=556&#038;subd=educationisglobal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. must come out of its monocultural cocoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old joke, commonly known among linguists: What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?—Bilingual. 3 languages?—Trilingual. Only 1 language?—American. School taught me a lot about western civilization and local history, but not much about the rest of &#8230; <a href="http://educationisglobal.com/2011/03/05/the-u-s-must-come-out-of-its-monocultural-cocoon-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=educationisglobal.com&#038;blog=17419475&#038;post=504&#038;subd=educationisglobal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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