West students traveling globe thanks to Aurora's Rotary clubs
Aurora Beacon News
Rotary International has 34000 clubs worldwide, including the Aurora (Noon) Rotary Club, which also sponsors many youth exchange students. The goal is to try to promote world peace and understanding through these exchanges, said Joel Huffman, …

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Empty Bowls: Students take art to heart
Freeport Journal-Standard
Since that time, Setterstrom said the students ask to be a part of it. Eighty percent of the bowls made for this event are made by FHS students. The rest will comes from Highland Community College, the Lil Street Art Gallery in Chicago, …

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The lost liberal arts university of China
Boston Globe
BEIJING — On a balmy weekend last fall, more than 600 elderly Chinese people, some leaning on canes or walkers, gathered in a Beijing hotel for one of the world's most extraordinary college reunions. Their school, St. John's University in Shanghai, …

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Westborough students highlight valuable lessons in course
Wicked Local
Most were unaware that 29000 trained educators worldwide teach FHAO to 2 million students a year. Sondra Bloch, newly elected president of the foundation, welcomed guests, student speakers and high school teacher Gregory Gallagher, who teaches the …

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Choice of topic boosts reading, writing in Hamilton Township schools
Press of Atlantic City
Second-grade teacher Heather Bahr helps student David Cressman, 7, on Friday in Hamilton Township. The school partnered with Teachers College at Columbia University to provide its faculty with professional development. Posted: Friday, March 2, …

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Rebuilding the Evangelical Mind Requires Courage
Huffington Post
While serious scholarship by self-professed evangelical Christians did not disappear entirely in the 20th century, it went into eclipse in the postwar period. These decades, especially 1960-1980, saw the high-water mark for Western secularism when, …

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VIDEO/PLYMOUTH NORTH TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE:'March Madness for the Mind'
Wicked Local
By Rich Harbert As the college basketball season kicks into overdrive next month, local high school students will be honing their own hoop skills for a very different kind of competition. The members of the Plymouth North Technology Alliance (PNTA) …

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Fashion and design panel planned at Grand Rapids Community College
The Grand Rapids Press – MLive.com
By Brian McVicar | bmcvicar@mlive.com GRAND RAPIDS – Students at Grand Rapids Community College want to start a conversation about fashion. The college's Fashion and Design club is hosting an event on March 14 where students will present an overview of …

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