Expert Explores Cultural Factors Affecting Children’s Classroom Learning Featured

Expert Explores Cultural Factors Affecting Children’s Classroom Learning
Since 1970, students from East Asia have outscored their U.S. counterparts on every international student comparative test. Every test over 50 years; no exceptions. “Why is this always true?” asked Dr. Cornelius Grove. Now he has answers. “I approached this as an interculturalist and an educator. I wanted to uncover…
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Nowhere To Call Home Featured

Nowhere To Call Home
“Please take my son and give him an education”.  This desperate plea by a widowed young mother from Tibet who had fled from her village  to Beijing, China in an effort to make enough money as a street peddler of Tibetan jewelry to educate her son was a real life…
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League of Women Voters Launches 'Make a Voting Plan' Campaign Featured

League of Women Voters Launches 'Make a Voting Plan' Campaign
(Eastern Bergen County, New Jersey; September 24, 2020) -- As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact and affect peoples' lives and our elections, the League of Women Voters of Northern Valley (LWVNV) wants citizens to know how to participate in the upcoming 2020 General Election.  With a lot of misinformation…
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League Celebrates Women's Equality Day and 100 Years Giving Women the Power to Vote Featured

League Celebrates Women's Equality Day and 100 Years Giving Women the Power to Vote
The League of Women Voters of Northern Valley celebrates Women’s Equality Day on August 26, 2020 and the advancements made towards achieving political, economic, and social equality.  The date commemorates the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th constitutional Amendment, granting women the right to vote in the United…
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