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PERSPECTIVE: Intentional witness, understanding overcomes marginalization

April 28, 2012 Cardinal & Cream

If you rip a sheet of lined paper out of a spiral-bound notebook, you will notice a broad middle section of the paper separated by two vertical red lines from the margins on either side. If you were to take all the people in the world and put them onto this sheet of paper, some would fall into this middle section but many more would be squeezed into the margins, tightly packed and clinging precariously to the jagged edges of the page. […]

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Education degree ends in classrooms with student teaching

April 26, 2012 Cardinal & Cream

Union’s student-teachers are placed at two different schools throughout the semester, and the School of Education requires one placement to be in an urban school district.

The Jackson-Madison County School System meets the urban school district requirement, allowing most student-teachers to perform at least one placement locally.

Education students also have the option to execute one of their student-teaching placements internationally. Myatt said five student-teachers taught internationally this semester in countries such as Cameroon, Mexico, Honduras, Ethiopia and the Czech Republic. […]