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Guest column: Oakland County school helps students thrive in IB curriculum

By Joan Stelzer More than 300 Oakland County high school seniors at the International Academy in Bloomfield Hills recently passed a key milestone when their 4,000-word essays electronically flew to evaluators around the world. Taking six months to research and write, each extended essay was an investigation into a topic never before published. It is […]

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Global schooling for a smaller world

What started as a curriculum for children of diplomats and leaders of multinational corporations is being adopted in an increasing number of Michigan schools. The International Baccalaureate Programme — “IB” as it’s commonly called — has special emphasis on internationalism. At the high-school level, a world language is a requirement. Those students also write a […]

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