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October 1, 2010
 During the blizzard of 1888, teacher Minnie Freeman tied her students together with a ball of twine. |
September 20, 2010
 IREX is pleased to announce the recipients of the TEA/ILEP Alumni Small Grants competition for the Fall 2010 cycle. |
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September 17, 2010
 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 international leaders who have stepped into school cafeterias. |
September 15, 2010
 Ukrainian English teacher Oleksandr Korotkov developed a month-long anti-drug campaign to combat drug use among youth in the Kyievo-Sviatoshynskyiregion of Ukraine. |
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September 3, 2010
 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. |
August 20, 2010
 It’s not often that my work at IREX intersects with the Sundance Film Festival. Yet on September 24th, “Waiting for Superman,” a film about problems plaguing the American education system will hit theatres |
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August 6, 2010
 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. |
July 12, 2010
 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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January 21, 2010
 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. |
November 17, 2009
 “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 more fitting for International Education Week (November 16-20), which celebrates the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. |
