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During the blizzard of 1888, teacher Minnie Freeman tied her students together with a ball of twine.

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TEA/ILEP Alumni Small Grant Award Recipients Announced

IREX is pleased to announce the recipients of the TEA/ILEP Alumni Small Grants competition for the Fall 2010 cycle.

School feeding program sponsored by WFP; photo by Julien Harneis

The message of the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” campaign is particularly suited to the current American obesity crisis. Yet she is also following in the footsteps of other...

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Ukrainian Teacher Launches Anti-Drug Campaign

Ukrainian English teacher Oleksandr Korotkov developed a month-long anti-drug campaign to combat drug use among youth in the Kyievo-Sviatoshynskyiregion of Ukraine.

I am not a big fan of tater tots. But last week at a cafeteria in Arkansas, I agreed to eat some in order to continue a conversation.

Learning english through scrabble

It’s not often that my work at IREX intersects with the Sundance Film Festival. Yet on September 24th, “Waiting for...

Turkey Orientation

Sevcan is twenty three years old. She grew up in Hatay, Turkey a rare place in the Middle East where mosques, churches and synagogues peacefully coexist.

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Zeboniso Muradova, a TEA alumna from Tajikistan, led a one-day workshop in January for teachers on cooperative learning and multiple intelligences.

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Alumni of the 2009 TEA program returned to their home countries in November 2009 and have been steadily working to put their experience into practice in their schools and communities.

“We come from many places, but we share a common future,” President Barack Obama said in an address to the United Nations General Assembly this September. This statement could not be...