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Blog personal iniciado en 2018, en colaboración con otros estudiantes de periodismo. Artículos, crónicas y entrevistas. Sección dedicada a contenidos en inglés sobre educación en Estados Unidos.

A growing trend but still facing clichés

But while the movement has grown, it has also changed. Its increasing popularity responds to a variety of reasons, including a search for an individual education or the discontent with the public scholar system. Today’s home-schooling families welcome cooperation with their local public school districts. This diversity challenges any typical understanding of what homeschooling is and what impact it will have on the public school system.

A step forward for the University of Maine female community

Over the years, the University of Maine campus has hosted some student associations and programs dedicated to this task. The Rising Tide Center, focus on recruiting, retaining and advancing women faculty in the sciences; the former Student Women´s Association, currently known as Feminist Collective since October 2, is another one of them; But one of the most valued and recognizable by the campus community is the Women´s Resource Center, which celebrated its twenty-three anniversary in 2014.

From idyllic childhood in the Australian coast to make the difference at 22

While James Peterson was growing up, he and his sister Emma received each one a birthday letter from their father. It wasn´t a traditional greeting card with a beautiful picture on the cover and a short message. Grant Peterson explained in those words why he was proud of them that year and which things they could have done better. In the end, he always wrote how much he loved his children and how thankful he was for them because being a parent made him a stronger person.

How to represent Canada in an American college classroom

All three panelist are Canadian but each of them was born and raised in different parts of the country: Pearl comes from a big urban city, Toronto, Rondeau is Quebecois and McLaughlin used to live in New Brunswick province. They all agree this is an essential fact when you are trying to analyze how a Canadian educator must face the challenge of being a professor in the United States. Toronto is a multicultural environment, as most of the American big cities are. On the contrary, New Brunswick is

The studying abroad experience: an uncertainty in Trump’s era

Whether it´s for a year abroad, for a full major or to do a Master´s degree they all come to the United States from different parts of the world with the goal of improving their English and living a unique experience. This kind of high education programs enhances cultural diversity in a country in which 13% of the population (40.4 million) are immigrants. This brings up a question: in which ways can a small university and its local area be affected by the international community?