... their choice. Breaking Tradition in Academia: Why Shifting to Online Education is Groundbreaking What Breaking Tradition Really Means Breaking tradition sounds drastic, radical, and irrational when referring to innovation in the academic world. So why muddle with a system that we know works and has worked decade after decade? Traditional classrooms are called traditional for a reason and that reason is, it ... revolution. This shift is already causing an uproar and fueling a debate between those who advocate for a traditional education and those who believe change is on the horizon. Lo...

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... teachers. Help we need you! Hence is the cry of school districts all over the country. For the last two decades, a teacher shortage has loomed on the horizon. United States Secretary of Education, Richard Riley, speaking at a recent forum in Chicago called on the educational community to adhere to the three R's as it pertained to teachers for the new century "recruitment, retention and respect- ( ... Branch, 13). The teacher shortage is now in ... to existing teachers waiting longer to retire. Regardless of ideology, most policy makers, educators and citizens agree that many staffing c...

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... need to follow directives and orders from the central government in Moscow. The reason that Gorbachev's reforms ran away so quickly rested primarily with the unrest of the Soviet people. The Soviet Union needed a foreign enemy or enemies to justify their tyrannical dictatorship at home. Without the threat of a terrible capitalist power looming on the horizon, the Soviet people refused to live under such ... terrible conditions. All that held the Soviet Union together as a nation was its military ... and entente. This attitude of peace required a restructuring of ideology within the Sov...

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