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Tag: American education

Home Posts Tagged "American education"

Students Improving Local Communities With United Planet

May 5, 2022United PlanetAmerican education, children and education, interview, teachers

Michelle Larson, 7th grade teacher at Eastern Howard School Corporation is one of those passionate and engaging educators many of us wish we had in our lives. On a daily…

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Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity: A Key Cross-Cultural Issue for Chinese Students Overseas?

January 17, 2013United Planetacademic integrity, American education, American universities, cheating, Chinese education, cross-cultural, cultural differences in academics, plagiarism, sociology, Syracuse University, university, Yingyi Ma

China has become the No. 1 sending country of international students to American universities. The new trend is that increasingly younger cohorts of students arrive as undergraduates or high schools students, who may find themselves constantly in a cross-cultural zone that demands their adjustment, learning and reflection.

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