by Eric Garner | Apr 14, 2016 | Recent News
Being bilingual comes with a world of advantages. You automatically sound worldly and cultured, you can openly gossip in public without anyone understanding you, and you sound hella sexy when you speak a foreign language. There’s no denying that your linguistic...
by Eric Garner | Apr 14, 2016 | Recent News
I always had an interest in environmental conservation and protection. I wrote about it in a previous post, “The Beginnings of an Environmental Educator”. It was not until I was in the seventh grade, though, that my interest in learning and teaching about...
by Eric Garner | Apr 14, 2016 | Recent News
For centuries, libraries have simply been places that house books. This meaning of the word is embedded right within it; the Old French librairie, used in the 14th century, means “collection of books.” An image of dusty stacks comes to mind, but, of course, the form a...
by Eric Garner | Apr 14, 2016 | Recent News
The No Child Left Behind Act, the controversial Bush-era education law, promoted an emphasis on reading and math, sometimes at the expense of other subjects. Now, the nation’s new education secretary is calling on schools to expand their focus to other subjects...
by Eric Garner | Apr 13, 2016 | Recent News
“First, do no harm.” As we weigh the strategies for tackling the opioid epidemic, I have been asking myself how we, as physicians and educators, can best honor that primary ethical commitment in a situation where there are no easy answers. As a...
by Eric Garner | Apr 13, 2016 | Recent News
What if we defined Billionaires as entrepreneurs helping to solve earth’s most pressing challenges? What if we disrupted Forbes Magazine criteria for its annual Billionaire’s list? What if we defined Billionaires as entrepreneurs helping to solve...
