Expanding the Map

Jul 3, 2014 / 11 minutes of reading

Joan Kang Shin’s approach to teaching English as a foreign language embraces children and community on a global scale. By David Glenn Imagine that you’re an experienced high school teacher in a country like Pakistan, Serbia, or Colombia. Your specialty is English as a foreign language. Your school doesn’t have many resources, but you have a good rapport with your students, and you’re proud of what you do. Then one day your government announces that English as a foreign language (EFL) classes will now be required for all students beginning in elementary school. You are yanked from your familiar high… Continue Reading Expanding the Map

Life on the Edge (With a Safety Net)

Jul 2, 2014 / 5 minutes of reading

Mary Volkman ’92, English, is a Baltimore native who writes fiction under the pen name “Margo Christie.” Her first novel, These Days: A Tale of Nostalgia on Baltimore’s Block, relies not only on the author’s time working in show bars on the city’s most notorious stretch of real estate (right under the shadow of City Hall, hon) in the 1970s and ’80s, but also in her careful attention to the reminiscences of those who’d been there during the heyday of burlesque just after World War II. But Margo Christie wrote the book. So let her tell it: It’s often said… Continue Reading Life on the Edge (With a Safety Net)

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Life on the Edge (With a Safety Net)

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