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And the Grammy goes to…a Teacher!
The Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Foundation awarded Kent Knappenberger with the very first annual Music Educator Award.
IIE Addis Ababa Office Celebrates a Remarkable Milestone—100 HER Girls Awarded Scholarship
The 100 girls successfully completed this past spring’s tutoring sessions, attended and did well in the summer enrichment activities including English language training and leadership and life skills development, and scored well enough on the Ethiopian National Exam to proceed directly to the 11th grade academic track.
K-12 Educators Play a Vital Role in “Mapping the World”
IIE is a proud contributor to the recently-released interactive online mapping tool Mapping the Nation: Linking Local to Global, which pulls together demographic, economic and education indicators—nearly one million data points—to show that the United States is a truly global nation. A quick look at the diverse education data from Mapping the Nation confirms what educators and policy-makers have suspected for many years: U.S. students, at both the school and university level, must become globally competent to succeed in the 21st century.
How IIE launched New Course in Myanmar with a Little Help From Count Basie and “Silicon Valley”
Ultimately 55 individuals from 31 universities and one ministry came to participate in the day-long opening workshop for the Myanmar Higher Education Initiative. The Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy, Virginia Murray, and U Ba Shwe, Deputy Minister for Science and Technology, officially opened the course.
How to Modernize a Country’s Education System One Teacher at a Time
IIE is honored to be one of ABF’s partners in its ambitious endeavor to provide cutting edge teacher training. For the second consecutive year, IIE administered the Education Leaders Training Program (ELTP), a customized three-week professional development and training program for a select group of 10-14 Bulgarian high school teachers.
7 Tips to Make Study Abroad More Affordable
In an increasingly inter-connected world, the ability to work successfully in a diverse workplace is more crucial than ever before. And the need for cross-cultural skills to negotiate an evolving, global economy has never been greater. To that end, study abroad can contribute vitally by furthering students’ foreign language abilities, enhancing cross-cultural communication skills and also providing a potentially life-changing international experience
Too Soon To Tell? Thoughts From CACIE in Beijing
It was my privilege to be one of the keynote speakers at the China Annual Conference for International Education in Beijing. The other was a former foreign minister. As it turned out, we both never had the opportunity to study abroad. Although our jobs later gave us the chance to travel – in Minister Li's case to 183 countries – we both spoke about the opportunity we wished we had.
HER Participant Results from the Ethiopian National Exam
The HER girls recently received their scores for the Ethiopian National Exam. This exam is taken by all 10th grade Ethiopians and their numerical score determines whether they move forward to the 11th grade in high school, move to a vocational school or stop going to school and enter the workplace.