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The Real World, Not MTV Style

A Principal's Reflections

Bergoffen with developing an activity for “Engineering Week” in February of 2012. For two days this December, in Mrs. Collentine’s Global Perspectives in Literature Honors classes, NMHS class of 2005 alumnus Jonathan Silver was a “guest” speaker/teacher/actor and taught and performed Shakespeare’s Hamlet for Mrs.

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Not going it alone: International education programs in an age of isolation

The Hechinger Report

The courses, across a range of subjects, encourage students to develop global perspectives. But since 2012 that number is up by 9 percent — a bright spot for a sector that lost 19 percent of its overall enrollment during that time. Students cite additional benefits.