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Mar31
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Harvard hosted a forum so students from around the world could discuss their views on China and India, the globes two fastest growing countries in many respects.
Topics such as:
1. sustainable development
 2. poverty alleviation
3. the state of villages
4. developing legal institutions
5. relations among China, India, and the United States.
were discussed.
Harvard, of course, is not the ONLY institution that does this sort of thing. However, like it or not, Harvard's grads become business and political leaders in many areas.
The more they know about these countries the better. No?
Free - open discussion is what being a student is all about.
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Mar31
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California State Fullerton and Fudan University say they have a first.The two schools will train English proficient Fudan students in educational administration at the Cal State Fullerton Campus and then send them back to China where the MS in Education...
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Wisdumb...sometimes the best lessons in life can be learning what NOT to do.Perhaps you might want to:Put Laxatives in Doughnuts and Give Them to Your Friends at School Turn Your Dead Dad into a DiamondGet 'Junior' Caught in the Machinery at...
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Those who don't know history can rewrite it if they like and hope no one else has a long memory.Tokyo has ordered changes in seven history textbooks that say the country's army forced civilians to commit mass suicide at the...
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Mar30
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Punishment! Three teachers will be suspended from work for 6-12 months, 12 others got pay cuts and another 20 received warnings for not standing up to honor Japan's national anthem during graduation ceremonies.Japan's school year ends in March.Japan's Rising Sun...
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Students at McLean High School are taking Turnitin.com to court, claiming the anti-plagiarism service violated copyright laws when it stored their papers even they requested the service to not do so."According to the lawsuit, each of the students obtained a...
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My brother called me less than an hour ago. I had been expecting a phone call for sometime because my mom had been "up on the roof."There's a story that the main character tells in the movie "Capricorn One." One...
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Andy Carvin has declared today as Stop Cyberbullying Day.The story behind the call to action can be found here. I learned about it from one of the other KnowMoreMedia authors, Easton Ellsworth here. Easton writes quite passionately:The world and its World Wide...
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Jacob Amundsen, a descendant of famed Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, buried one of 250 copies of a wristwatch he designed to withstand extreme conditions at the North Pole in 2004 in honor of his ancestor.A piece of ice broke...
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Wisdumb...sometimes the best lessons in life can be learning what NOT to do.Perhaps you might want to: Let your daughter become a celebrity stalker.Marry Someone Half Your Size Throw Away Useful Poop Demand Permission to do SomethingCall the police Cheat on your master's thesisAsk...
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College Humor has a contest going on. The site says they are searching for America's Hottest College Girl.64 girls from various colleges are going at it head to head until one is left....in March. A different kind of March Madness,...
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Mar29
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The New York Times reports that when students call a university, it is a lender that answers the phone and not the college. Worse yet...the lender identifies iitself as an arm of the university.Some 20 institutions are using call centers...
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Several prominent alumni have raised $1.75 million to bankroll scholarships to get more black freshmen into UCLA.Last year, only 100 black students said they planned to be among UCLA's 4800 new freshmen, the lowest number in more than 30 years."The...
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It's the first time a degree has been revoked because the thesis writer had plagiarized.A former mechanical engineering student at Ohio University was found to have borrowed, without citations, too much material. The student's master's degree was revoked. As a...
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Two Senators are introducing the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Act of 2006 (S. 3744), which calls for a national program to encourage study abroad.The goals of the program:1. Create fellowships2. Create scholarships3. Establish partnerships with colleges and universities4. 1 million...
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There are more Indian students in American universities than from any other country other than America.America's Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy is in India with a delegation of university presidents trying to sell American style education to India so that...
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The mom of a university girl went berserk at Texas College where her daughter attends.When her 'little girl' told her she was being picked on, the mom headed to school to confront the Texas College President.When she got no satisfaction...
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I was reading a series of articles on how to talk with people who don't share the same religious beliefs as I do.There are groups that pound on doors, travel around on bicycles, hang out in public places and pin...
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A man operated a suicide web site in Japan. The deal was he would help others to commit suicide by doing it with them.Problem is...how many times can one man commit suicide?This guy did it three times.He lured a 14-year...
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College Humor has a contest going on. The site says they are searching for America's Hottest College Girl.64 girls from various colleges are going at it head to head until one is left....in March. A different kind of March Madness,...
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Mar28
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Sponsored Review Online Colleges bills itself as a directory of online schools, colleges, and information, connecting potential and post-secondary students with 100's of degree choices. I believe in online education. Golly, I have been teaching online for a couple of...
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This doesn't make a lot of sense if you think about it too hard. Consider yourself forewarned.The operator of a pre-school in Manila took an Uzi Assault rifle, a revolver and two grenades as well as food and water for...
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Ever wondered how much that guy up front who goes on and on and on is making?How much is he getting paid to talk you to sleep? What about that woman who talks about nothing but her kids?And that TA that...
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I find it hard to believe that there are only 86 bloggers out of technorati's 68 million who have weblogged more than 1000 posts.No more? That's it?There are three bloggers who claim to have more than 10,000 posts:1. Adland43,113 posts...
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I received an email from a close friend. The names have been deleted to protect the victims.--- This past Sunday, on March 25, our evangelist ..... was taking his wife, ... from Malkarodha to Champa on his motorcycle. Brother ... has...
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We wonder what happens when kids get bullied and then commit suicide.I wrote previously about 5 things that happen when children take their own lives.Today, I learned a sixth.Two local governments were ordered to pay a family 8.6 million yen...
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I read in an article yesterday, not online, that according to the National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families, one in four children who regularly spend time on the Internet has encounter a child predator.Children as young as...
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I don't know a lot about a lot of things, but I do know something about teaching English as a Second Language...especially in Japan.I plan to turn my attention to ESL and teaching, doing business in Japan and such at...
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College Humor has a contest going on. The site says they are searching for America's Hottest College Girl.64 girls from various colleges are going at it head to head until one is left....in March. A different kind of March Madness,...
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Mar27
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When a third grader was caught stealing for the second time at Shady Cove Elementary School, (what would you expect from kids who go to a school that starts with Shady?) the parents called the police.The police chief under pretenses...
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I don't get out too often, but when I do, Edspresso is one place I go. The site posts daily a bundle of news about Education....I counted 79 links today to stories...number of male teachers reaches 40 year low.Ethnic segregation...
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With Easter just around the corner (I think Easter is celebrated EVERY Sunday), it seems Jews are in the news along with their shennanigans.A rabbi Hassidic Jewish congregation converted a full-sized red and white school bus into an oven, complete...
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Press release: "Following the completion of a thorough and deliberate review process, The Jewish Theological Seminary has decided, effective immediately, to accept qualified gay and lesbian students into its rabbinical and cantorial schools."I don't know which end of the spectrum...
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College Humor has a contest going on. The site says they are searching for America's Hottest College Girl.64 girls from various colleges are going at it head to head until one is left....in March. A different kind of March Madness,...
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Mar26
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The majority of Japan's public elementary schools, about 90%, have created "safety maps" to guide children along routes to and from school and play areas so that the kids will be protected from accidents and crimes targeted against them.Children participate...
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Is there a teacher who hasn't had eyes for a student? How many teachers, professors, pastors for that matter, do you know who have married a student or a member of the group they taught or were responsible for? An...
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College Humor has a contest going on. The site says they are searching for America's Hottest College Girl.64 girls from various colleges are going at it head to head until one is left....in March. A different kind of March Madness,...
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Mar25
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And we wonder why our kids turn out the way they do....at least this particular problem was in Japan. A Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology worker was arrested on suspicion of molesting a 20-year-old woman on a...
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A social studies problem answered by a math calculation - Northeastern Ohio Amish bakers and family cooks united to challenge the Las Vegas Hilton.First of all, how do the Amish even know there is a Las Vegas?Secondly, why would the...
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Some music tech in Nashville bought a rare copy, one of 200 commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820, of the Declaration of Independence at a music thrift shop for $2.48.He hoped to get $125,000 at auction but wound up...
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At least one country has the emphasis in the right place....education.Singapore wants its education sector to be about 5% of its gross domestic product by 2015...up from the current 3.8%.Singapore has 20 foreign universities and 41 preparatory and boarding schools...
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Is there something here that academics worldwide can learn from?The China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) has published a moral code for all of its members.The code will:1. create a clean academic environment2. promote scientific research3. promote innovationforbid:4. plagiarism5....
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Mar23
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A middle school kid felt like he was being picked on by his teacher. When he complained, nobody took action.So, he did.He poured urine in the coffee pot of his teacher and three colleagues.The kid was caught, suspended and now...
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The list of 100 Most Prolific Bloggers - those with 1,000 posts or more continues to grow. How about you? Do you belong on the list?---- Here's another question - if post count is not the best criteria for determining if...
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Who would have thought that there was such a prize or even such a competition for that matter.Imagine this prof sitting around at the breakfast table, all antsy, and his wife asks."What's up, honey?""Well, the competition is really hot for...
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College Humor has a contest going on. The site says they are searching for America's Hottest College Girl.64 girls from various colleges are going at it head to head until one is left....in March. A different kind of March Madness,...
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Mar22
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Japan's foreign minister didn't call westerners baby making machines, but it was close.Japan has a Middle East peace initiative that apparently only 'yellow faces' can deliver on....not blue eyes and blonde hair.The minister's extreme words of Wisdumb - because of...
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A 19 year old Purdue student that went missing on January 13th has been found...on a power transformer, electrocuted.The door to the power transformer room might have been confused for a dorm room door. We will never know.What we do...
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College Humor has a contest going on. The site says they are searching for America's Hottest College Girl.64 girls from various colleges are going at it head to head until one is left....in March. A different kind of March Madness,...
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Mar21
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Well, I am glad to hear McDonalds is bent on straightening out the Oxford English Dictionary over which words belong in the English language and which don't.Some twenty years ago the Washington Post used the word 'McJob.' Oxford calls it...
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There is all sorts of stupidity going on here.First...the school punishes a girl for wearing socks with Winnie the Pooh's good friend Tigger on them. She also had a denim skirt and a brown shirt with, Oh no!, a pink...
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Security guards at China's top colleges, Beijing, Tsinghua, China Renmin, did more than just protect the students. In the past 13 years, 100 security guards at Beijing, 70 at Tsinghua and 50 at China Renmin have received college degrees....by studying...
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What puts the class in world class?I love this story...a famous athlete, second only to Yao Ming in popularity in China, is doing his utmost to help a female grad student who has been diagnosed with leukemia to secure the...
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College Humor has a contest going on. The site says they are searching for America's Hottest College Girl.64 girls from various colleges are going at it head to head until one is left....in March. A different kind of March Madness,...
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Mar20
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Up at 5:50am.Breakfast at 6:15am.Out the door at 6:30am.30-minute commute, arrive at school 7:00am, one hour before classes begin.6 hours of school.After school special classes in math, English, music and Chinese.More weekend classes in math, English, music and Chinese.This is...
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Need a job? Every year there are 10,000 vacancies for teaching Chinese as a foreign language...but only 2,000 teachers available.Last year China sent 1,004 teachers overseas to 80 countries and 1,050 volunteers to 34 countries to teach the Chinese language.China...
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Not only do teachers have to handle kids, they need to instruct parents on how to do their job as well. And when that doesn't work, police are called in.An unbelievably stupid couple, 33 and 36-years old, said they had...
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Just when I began to think that teachers in Japan could do things right...the man with no arms and legs teaching elementary kids comes to mind...another high school teacher gets busted for doing the dirty with a jr. high school...
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This is a feel good story if there ever was one.A 30-year old man born with no arms and no legs gained fame by writing his memoir..."No One's Perfect." It wasn't enough...now he has a teaching license from Meisei University...
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College Humor has a contest going on. The site says they are searching for America's Hottest College Girl.64 girls from various colleges are going at it head to head until one is left....in March. A different kind of March Madness,...
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Mar19
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There's a reason why we study history and are required to get good grades in it.The Japanese and Chinese have the same history but give different answers to the essay questions - who did what during the war period.The Japanese...
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I don't know why I am finding out about this after the fact. I guess I need to be on the we're-stripping-down-to-save-trees mailing list or something.78 people stripped down and hugged trees, literally in a bid to save a grove...
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College Humor has a contest going on. The site says they are searching for America's Hottest College Girl.64 girls from various colleges are going at it head to head until one is left....in March. A different kind of March Madness,...
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Mar18
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College Humor has a contest going on. The site says they are searching for America's Hottest College Girl.64 girls from various colleges are going at it head to head until one is left....in March. A different kind of March Madness,...
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A 20-year old ballet dance from Shizuoka Prefecture has been selected to represent Japan in the Miss Universe Competition. The world competition will be held in Mexico the end of May....Hmm...I wonder if I can cover it, the contest...the contest. Japan's...
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Mar17
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The 100 Most Prolific Bloggers list, those with 1000 posts or more on one blog has reached 86 bloggers.Surely there are more bloggers who have more posts, no?Question: Is post count a good indicator of being prolific?How about word count?Or...
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A weekly sleaze magazine in Japan printed a story saying that a 62-year old prof annoyed his students by showing an Adult Video...which, indeed, there are a lot of in Japan...make that everywhere.The prof did give a class where he...
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Mar16
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It may be the American dream...to strike it rich, overnight success, to get discovered, but China' Ministry of Education says, "Stardom should not be the only dream of our children." The point of the attack is China's new wave of...
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There is a scene in the movie Capricorn One where the guy tells a joke as he climbs a mountain to escape pursuers.His brother who had not been home for sometime calls to see how things are. He first asks,...
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A kid in the third year of middle school in China's Yunnan Province brought a grenade to school as toy. "Hey! Let's pretend to blow each other up."...pull the pin...BOOM!Yup...ten students were injured by the explosion...the worst being one student...
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When lawyers can't get things straight, we're in trouble. Okay...we are already in trouble no matter when lawyers are involved.The chief prosecutor had these words of wisdumb for the district judge - his client "claimed a unicorn was driving when...
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