Immigrant stories: Constance Castrence

November 13, 2013

In the early 1950s, a sociologist and anthropologist named Ruth Useem coined the term “third-culture kid.” She was referring to children who go with their parents into another society—kids who grow up speaking one language at home and another everywhere else. Kids like Constance Castrence....
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Moroccan classrooms go interactive

November 6, 2013

Saloua Ben Fethalla is a math teacher at Almajd School in Tahannaout, Morocco, a picturesque rural town at the foot of the Atlas Mountains. Her 13-year-old students are just beginning middle school....
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Immigrant stories: Stefan Lafloer

October 7, 2013

It was every young adult’s dream. An all-expenses paid apartment on the 39th floor of a high-rise building in downtown Chicago overlooking Lake Michigan, and a chance to kick off a career in a hot field that was so new most had never heard of it....
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