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or: Things I wish I had known when I was in college
Someone challenged me yesterday to tell them one thing I learned after college that I wish I had known before I started college.
It has taken me a long time to whittle my response down to just one thing.
I wish I had had more fun [...]

Do you believe in Bigfoot, Yeti, Sasquatch? How about the Loch Ness monster? Now, before you scoff and hit the exit button and move onto the latest happenings of Brad and Angelina, or check out your favorite sports scores online, consider this: Everyone believed the world was flat before Columbus “took the plunge” and risked [...]

Or How a Minor in Education Might Help You Get a Jobby Eleanor K. Sikes, Ed. D.Interim Chairperson, Middle Grades Education Programs
I do not know just how many teachers Georgia and the nation will need next year because all the retirements, resignations, and dismissals are not in. But I do know that the [...]

Congratulations, high school graduates! You have achieved a milestone in your education careers. But please do not think you have learned all there is to learn.If you have not yet chosen a college, there is time. If you have already lined up a job, there is still time. And if you have been working for [...]

While I was in Oxford, I was bound and determined to use what little free time was available to me to engage in some serious research in the library system at the University of Oxford, especially the Bodleian Library. Gaining access to this library, as an American, is not as simple as heading down to [...]