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"I chose the Stanford ICE/IEAPA program for its small size, supportive faculty, and rigorous monograph requirements. The program served me well: I have been working for the past six years as an education researcher at the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International, focusing on evaluation
My year at SUSE provided me with the fundamentals of education beyond just the world of teaching. My coursework in the IEAPA program included research design, the economics of education, and curriculum development, among other classes, all of which combined gave me a clear picture of the state of
"I was impressed with the caliber of people at the Stanford University School of Education, their creative thinking, and their sense of urgency to see the world change. The International Comparative Education (ICE) program challenged me to sharpen my thinking around major issues in education
"In the ICE MA program I focused on comparative civic education, and completed a monograph exploring the content of civic and history textbooks in Northern Ireland, England and the Republic of Ireland. I am particularly interested in how states recovering from violent ethnic conflict or
"Once I completed the master's degree in International Educational Administration and Policy Analysis, I returned to my position at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) as Assistant Director, Basic Education Division II, Human Development Department. My position requires quite a bit of
"After graduating from the ICE program, I was hired to work in Student Affairs at Stanford. The structure of our coursework in comparative education was enhanced perfectly by the chance to do original research and enroll in other Education courses that interested us outside of our concentrations in
After graduating from college, I spent the next three years of my life in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a small Pacific Islands nation of roughly 55,000 people. I taught English and government, and was the college counselor at a local high school. Upon returning to the United States, I moved
As a native Chinese who majored in English in college, I came to appreciate education in a cross-cultural context from early on. My interaction with students from diverse cultural backgrounds through various exchange programs fostered my interest in comparative education. After obtaining my bachelor
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