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Global Perspectives
Global Perspectives: How the World Works Global Perspectives: How the World Works is the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Study Topic for 2016-2017. The topic is broken into eight themes and this past weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Michigan Region Mini Honors...
Shame on Me, Shame on Us
Shame on Me, Shame on Us! Last Tuesday, like many of you, I watched the election results in disbelief. How could we have gotten the polling so wrong and how could the American populous have elected Donald Trump as President? As I thought about facing my colleagues...
Addition and the Aggregate: Getting Students to Revise and Edit
I’m coming to the time in the semester when I focus more on getting students to revise and edit their essays. After we finish our third major project, we will move into portfolio revision in the period after Thanksgiving. For this portfolio work, I ask students to...
Epilepsy Awareness
November is Epilepsy Awareness Month and because that diagnosis applies to several in our NMC community I thought a bit of information would be in order. Did you know: Epilepsy is a disorder of the central nervous system which can cause seizures* 1 in 26 Americans...