Education

YES & NO

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After Ni Hao “hello” learning to say ‘yes’ and “no” in Chinese could be valuable. Learning to say “yes” is usually one of the first things you learn when studying a new language. Unfortunately, in Chinese, there’s no direct equivalent to the English “yes.” Except, 是 (🔈 shì)!

READING & WRITING WRONG

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If you take the time to Google around long enough, you learn that teaching college students can be an exercise in avoiding tripwires.

Religion, Gender, and most recently long-established historical facts are being contested and are turning into hot-button issues that become costly actions to suppress but should have superseded academic freedom, soon after the classroom sessions have ended and experienced professors are ousted.

Early Learning Skills

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Making a tower of blocks is a visual-motor or problem-solving milestone. Most children are capable of two by 21 months young.

Other kids can make a tower of 2 blocks by 15 to 21 months and 4 blocks by 17 to 24 months and 6 blocks by 18 to 30 months.

LOVE READING?

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Not just Florida, but New York City, NY has already proposed deep cuts to public library budgets for the coming fiscal year.

Listen and Learn

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Learn to listen ~ acuerdalo ... anotalo ... aprendelo… remember it… write it down… learn it ~ Aprende a escuchar

Listening involves receiving sound, understanding the message conveyed in the sounds you hear, evaluating the message, and responding to it.

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People with good listening skills are able to comprehend what they hear and respond appropriately.

Student Fair

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First and foremost, the takeaway for all students is wanting and willing to learn and learning to listen carefully and then ask questions. 

US Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/ and Congressman Adriano Espaillat https://espaillat.house.gov/ host a Student Services Fair to help young people connect with the U.S. Department of Education, our U.S. Service Academies, internship opportunities, and more.

Comical and Preposterous

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If anyone wishes to be influential, they should continue their education process. Woke Pronouns vs. Anti-nouns, is that the question?

Thousands?

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Have you ever wondered how many languages are spoken in the world? If you had to guess, you might say or guess 7777.

I speak two fluently, how about you? When people are asked to list how many languages there are to their knowledge, the average is only around 10. That’s because most people are psychologically predisposed to be aware of only the most commonly used or learned languages around them. And the number of written languages in the world is yet another question altogether.

Free Speech in Higher Education

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Higher education’s principal role is “the discovery, improvement, transmission, and dissemination of knowledge by means of research, teaching, discussion, and debate” (Kurtz et al.,2017). 

According to Kors and Silverglate (1999), higher education should be a sanctuary from those who seek control over thoughts, as the purpose of free speech is to accomplish a“reasoned search for truth” (p.3, 51). Baker (1953), in quoting Thomas Jefferson’s dedication to the University of Virginia when he wrote “that of an institution…

Overpopulation and Overconsumption

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Do you know which are the top ten most populated cities in the whole wide world and in order of overpopulation on earth?

Reportedly, the world hit the eight billion population mark. Based on extensive research, it has been concluded that more than half of the world’s population lives in cities across the globe.