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In Palestine, Putting a Teen Mayor in Charge of the Town: Allar’s Daring Experimental Education

Fifteen-year-old Othman, the first girl Mayor of the Palstenian town of Allar, describes facing skepticism when she initially ascended into her position. Then, over time, she gained the respect of her constituents through hard ...
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Brazil: Government Implementing Affirmative Action in a “Raceless” Country

Ever since Brazil abolished slavery in 1888, the country has seen itself as a racial democracy. Unlike in the U.S., there were never anti-miscegenation laws keeping blacks from marrying whites nor did schools and public transpo...
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Last First Day of School Coming Up for Many Russian Universities

There are too many universities in Russia. This is the opinion of senior education officials, who have watched the number of colleges and institutes skyrocket from 300 at the time of the USSR’s collapse to 3,000 at presen...
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Are Sikhs Muslims? Facing the Lack of Religious Education in the U.S.

The tragic shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, last Sunday has posed some very tough questions to the American public about its level of religious literacy. At a post-shooting briefing, the Air Force Academy̵...
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New Training Tool Helps Asian Students Adapt to Regional Accents in English

Is the man a thinker or a tinker? Did the prince marry a cat or Kate? Many ESL students strain their ears to answer these questions. For Asians who find it hard to distinguish between the l and r sounds, among other consonants ...
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NERD ALERT! Plagiarized Dissertation Turned Into Artsy Map

Following our recent article on the ghostwritten essay boom, I’d like to share this awesome graphic.  It looks like bar codes or a super-expensive area rug, but it’s actually the visualization of completely and sec...
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The Rise of the Pay-Per-Word Dissertation

Ghostwriting is more or less a standard course of action when it comes to the orations of busy presidents, popular crime novels, and 2,000-page celebrity autobiographies. But the practice of hiring someone else to fabricate you...
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Meet Egypt’s First Democratically Elected…Professor

Last week, Mohamed Morsi was sworn in as the fifth president of the Arab Republic of Egypt. His inauguration was watched by the world for many reasons, being the symbolic resolution to a year-and-a-half of Tahrir Square protest...
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Introduction of Kurdish Language Education in Turkey Stirs Controversy

Turkey recently authorized Kurdish classes in public schools, bringing a long-banned language under the official umbrella. Under the new policy, students will have the opportunity to take Kurdish as an elective if there is enou...
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