November 2011
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"The answer is.... I don't know"
I graduate next semester and I dont know what I’m doing. It seems kind of silly for an education major to say this. I will be graduating with a degree and certification to teach 4th-8th grade math and science. Let me repeat, FOURTH through EIGHTH grade MATH and SCIENCE. In fact, the reason I chose this grade level and these subject areas was so that I would be able to get a job after...
The different routes of education
As of lately I’ve been VERY focused on Earth Science. This happens every semester. If not science then math. I get consumed in the world of numbers and how the Earth works that I forget the world we actually live in and the people in it. Being in class about South East Asia and volunteering with refugees helps keep me grounded and sane. When I’m in ESL classes with refugees I find...
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“What about the ability for Cambodians to make change?”
– Elizabeth Becker
Journalist Elizabeth Becker points out, in her review of Brinkley’s novel, what about the ability for Cambodians to make change? Becker, who is the author of When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, challenges Brinkley’s assertion that ordinary Cambodians... 