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Javier E

Getting Into the Ivies - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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admission university foreign globalization

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  • For American teenagers, it really is harder to get into Harvard — or Yale, Stanford, Brown, Boston College or many other elite colleges — than it was when today’s 40-year-olds or 50-year-olds were applying. The number of spots filled by American students at Harvard, after adjusting for the size of the teenage population nationwide, has dropped 27 percent since 1994.
  • The share for any individual college is minuscule, of course. In 2012, about 33 out of every 100,000 American 18- to 21-year-olds were attending Harvard, down from 45 per 100,000 in 1994. These changes in the share tell you how much harder, or easier, admission has become for American teenagers on average. Between 1984 and 1994, it became easier at many colleges. The college-age population in this country fell during that time to 14.1 million in 1994 from 16.5 million in 1984, and the number of foreign students was relatively stable.
  • Over the last 20 years, several large colleges, like N.Y.U. and the University of Southern California, have improved markedly, effectively increasing the number of seats on elite campuses
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  • For students from the Northeast applying to elite colleges in the region, college admissions have probably become even more difficult in recent decades than these statistics suggest. Not only have colleges globalized, they have also become less regional, admitting more students from states like North Carolina, Texas and Washington.
  • On average, about 15 percent of students at elite colleges receive Pell grants, which as a rule of thumb go to students in the bottom half of the income distribution.
  • Low-income applicants are left to compete for the remaining slots with applicants who have the highest test scores, most impressive extracurricular activities and most eloquent essays.
  • Michelle Wendt on 29 Apr 14
     
    After reading this i felt I could assuage the parents group at my daughter's school who were heartbroken that their siblings were not accepted into the school as well.
Lee-Anne Patterson

Language Learning & Technology - 1 views

llt.msu.edu

language technology journal education learning

shared by Lee-Anne Patterson on 26 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 26 Apr 09
     
    A refereed journal for second and foreign language educators
jodi tompkins

Web 2.0 Applications in the MFL classroom - 68 views

www.boxoftricks.net/?p=1661

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  • jodi tompkins on 09 Jan 10
     
    This video is also available on Blip TV, Vimeo , YouTube and Podomatic . You can subscribe to this series of video podcasts in iTunes. Just before Christmas, I was interviewed by Naace about our use of web 2.0 applications to enhance the teaching and learning of Modern Foreign Languages at our sc
Marc Patton

NUNU - 70 views

wordsteps.com

Spanish ESL Teaching_Tools

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  • Marc Patton on 28 Sep 12
     
    Learn foreign words with pleasure
sha towers

Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist - 27 views

www.economist.com/17723223

phd academia university education doctoral degrees

shared by sha towers on 31 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • There is an oversupply of PhDs. Although a doctorate is designed as training for a job in academia, the number of PhD positions is unrelated to the number of job openings. Meanwhile, business leaders complain about shortages of high-level skills, suggesting PhDs are not teaching the right things. The fiercest critics compare research doctorates to Ponzi or pyramid schemes.
  • A graduate assistant at Yale might earn $20,000 a year for nine months of teaching. The average pay of full professors in America was $109,000 in 2009
  • America produced more than 100,000 doctoral degrees between 2005 and 2009. In the same period there were just 16,000 new professorships.
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  • PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the ugly underbelly of academia”, do much of the research these days.
  • In some areas five years as a postdoc is now a prerequisite for landing a secure full-time job.
  • in 1966 only 23% of science and engineering PhDs in America were awarded to students born outside the country. By 2006 that proportion had increased to 48%. Foreign students tend to tolerate poorer working conditions, and the supply of cheap, brilliant, foreign labour also keeps wages down.
  • In America only 57% of doctoral students will have a PhD ten years after their first date of enrolment. In the humanities, where most students pay for their own PhDs, the figure is 49%.
  • About one-third of Austria’s PhD graduates take jobs unrelated to their degrees. In Germany 13% of all PhD graduates end up in lowly occupations. In the Netherlands the proportion is 21%.
  • The earnings premium for a PhD is 26%. But the premium for a master’s degree, which can be accomplished in as little as one year, is almost as high, at 23%
  • PhDs in maths and computing, social sciences and languages earn no more than those with master’s degrees
  • the skills learned in the course of a PhD can be readily acquired through much shorter courses.
  • In one study of British PhD graduates, about a third admitted that they were doing their doctorate partly to go on being a student, or put off job hunting.
  • The more bright students stay at universities, the better it is for academics. Postgraduate students bring in grants and beef up their supervisors’ publication records.
  • Writing lab reports, giving academic presentations and conducting six-month literature reviews can be surprisingly unhelpful in a world where technical knowledge has to be assimilated quickly and presented simply to a wide audience.
  • Many of those who embark on a PhD are the smartest in their class and will have been the best at everything they have done. They will have amassed awards and prizes. As this year’s new crop of graduate students bounce into their research, few will be willing to accept that the system they are entering could be designed for the benefit of others, that even hard work and brilliance may well not be enough to succeed, and that they would be better off doing something else.
  • sha towers on 13 Apr 11
     
    article from the Economist "The Disposable Academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
trisha_poole

Foreign Language & ESOL Technology Integration: Welcome to the Foreign Language & ESOL ... - 76 views

flesolcobbcentral.typepad.com/tech

INF506 resources onlineeducation elearning web2.0 technology ESL TESOL EML426 blogs webtools tools onlineresources flexiblelearning blendedlearning fbl fli

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  • trisha_poole on 13 Jan 11
     
    The purpose of this blog is to assist world language and ESOL teachers with integrating technology into their classrooms.
trisha_poole

'absolutely intercultural!' - 21 views

www.absolutely-intercultural.com

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  • trisha_poole on 31 Jan 11
     
    Welcome to the first ever intercultural podcast. 'absolutely intercultural!' is its name and, as far as we know, this is the first podcast in the world to deal with intercultural issues. We'll be releasing a new episode every second Friday evening, looking at all intercultural aspects of human intercultural communication. For example, we'll be hearing from students on foreign work placements, asking how teachers can make use of intercultural exercises and simulations in their classroom and sharing with you any intercultural gossip we come across. 'absolutely intercultural!' won't be so much about passing on information but more about starting an intercultural dialogue between the makers, and you, the contributors and listeners.
Martin Burrett

Tonguetide - 2 views

www.tonguetide.com

mfl language partner social networking VoIP chat video chat

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  • Martin Burrett on 11 Aug 11
     
    Tonguetide is a social networking site for people looking to improve their foreign language skills. Find a language partner or use the site's learning tools to help you. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages,+Culture+&+International+Projects
Randolph Hollingsworth

Do Majors Matter? - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...ow_much_college_students_learn

critical thinking college majors pedagogy

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 23 Jun 11
     
    Sociology and foreign languages at the top of undergraduate majors if you are interested in seeing gains in critical thinking skills in higher ed - could be some pedagogical models for folks in the natural sciences to emulate since they were at the bottom!
Sheri Edwards

And Now For Some Unexpectedly Good News - 35 views

techcrunch.com/...or-some-unexpectedly-good-news

Africa technology economy social studies

shared by Sheri Edwards on 24 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Sheri Edwards on 24 Jun 11
     
    Is this really good for the African people? or is it good for the foreigners moving in? Is this history repeating itself again and again? 
Betiana Caprioli

TypeIt - Type accent marks, diacritics and foreign letters online - 4 views

typeit.org

spanish foreign languages

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  • Betiana Caprioli on 02 Nov 11
     
    Helps with typing in other language.
Sharin Tebo

50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom | TeachHUB - 77 views

www.teachhub.com/50-ways-use-twitter-classroom

Twitter classroom SDWWL resources edtech writing

shared by Sharin Tebo on 29 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Summarize. At the conclusion of each lecture, ask students to type a 140-character or less summary of what they have learned
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 29 Oct 14
       
      EXIT Ticket strategy!
  • Set up a foreign language news stream. Keep foreign language students informed of current events from relevant nations while simultaneously challenging them to use their translation skills by keeping a specific news feed.
  • Typing keywords into Twitter’s search engine wields every microblog entry on the subject, providing an excellent way for students to research ideas,
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  • Facilitate discussions.
trisha_poole

NCLRC - The Essentials of Language Teaching - 37 views

www.nclrc.org/...index.htm

resources teaching pedagogy language teaching esl tesol

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  • trisha_poole on 04 Sep 11
     
    This site gives college and university instructors and teaching assistants an introduction to the language teaching methods that are currently used in U.S. universities. The content is based on the material in Modules for the Professional Preparation of Teaching Assistants in Foreign Languages (Grace Stovall Burkart, ed.; Center for Applied Linguistics, 1998). The site was developed for the National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC) by Catharine Keatley and Deborah Kennedy under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, CFDA #84.015A.
trisha_poole

Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish - The University of Iowa - 31 views

www.uiowa.edu/phonetics

ESL TESOL english pronunciation education language linguistics phonetics eslresources onlineresources EML426 tools

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  • trisha_poole on 10 Jan 11
     
    This site contains libraries of phonetic sounds of English, German, and Spanish. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language. There is also an interactive diagram of the articulatory anatomy.
Mark Gleeson

The Literacy Shed - A great new resource for Visual Text Literacy Teaching - 123 views

mgleeson.edublogs.org/...-visual-text-literacy-teaching

literacy comprehension visual_text multimodal_text

shared by Mark Gleeson on 23 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Mark Gleeson on 23 Jun 12
     
    The site is organised into 24 different 'sheds", each providing a selection of quality visual texts (mainly 3D animations) accompanied by very useful teaching notes (Note to Grammar Gurus/Spelling "Nazis" -  ignore the occasional typo in the notes) outlining how you can use the clips in exploring themes, characterisation, narrative, plot, mood, use of audio, body language, inferences,deductions, predictions  - the notes cover just about everything. It's equally useful for reading comprehension and writing development. The use of the resources also go beyond just Literacy. Many of the resources are also useful for Humanities subjects as well and Smith points these links out in detail. What I especially enjoy is the number of foreign animations that expose students particularly in USA and Australia, my home, to different cultural and creative perspectives beyond Hollywood story telling.
Devin Page

Henry Clay and the American System for kids *** - 6 views

www.american-historama.org/...american-system.htm

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  • Taxing all foreign goods, to boost the sales of US products and protect manufacturers from cheap British goods
  • ● Introducing a protective Tariff to enable the nation to raise money from these taxes and at the same time protect the nation's goods from cheaper priced foreign items
    • Devin Page
      Devin Page on 11 Apr 18
       
      Which region of the country did not like tariffs that were meant to help manufacturers in the north?
  • The American System helped to fuel the belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States
    • Devin Page
      Devin Page on 11 Apr 18
       
      So which region probably benefited from the American system?
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  • Roads and canals were built that enabled Americans to travel and the Cumberland Road, the Erie Canal were constructed
    • Devin Page
      Devin Page on 11 Apr 18
       
      Where did the Cumberland Road take travelers? How about the Erie Canal?
  • The American System helped to fuel the belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States
  • ● Henry Clay's American System eventually ran out of steam during the administration of President Jackson
    • Devin Page
      Devin Page on 11 Apr 18
       
      Which region of the country seemed to most supprt Andrew Jackson?
MK Pursley

Cobb Foreign Language & ESOL Technology Blog! - 28 views

flesolcobbcentral.typepad.com/tech

shared by MK Pursley on 29 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • MK Pursley on 29 Nov 12
     
    My school districts ESOL blog has a plethora of links to technological resources!
Don Doehla

Languages as a Core Component of Education for All Students | American Council on The T... - 16 views

www.actfl.org/...mponent-education-all-students

languages core component education teaching actfl news

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  • Don Doehla on 04 Jun 13
     
    A key new position statement from ACTFL
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