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SUMMARY:A Paleo-teacher's Adventures in the Brave New World: the promise and pitfalls of online education
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 Mary McConnell, JMC/MSU alumna IR '77) attended 
 Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, 
 earning an M. Phil in International Relations. 
 After finishing her graduate degree she worked 
 as Congressman Jack Kemp's chief legislative 
 assistant, developing his enterprise zone 
 legislation, and then as the chief Pentagon 
 speechwriter, writing speeches and policy papers 
 for Secretary Caspar Weinberger and President 
 Ronald Reagan. When her husband, Michael 
 (JMCD-1976) joined the faculty of the University 
 of Chicago Law School she became Public 
 Issues Director at FMC Corporation, a Fortune 
 200 manufacturing company and major defense 
 contractor. A visiting stint at the University 
 of Utah turned into a 14 year stay, during 
 which Ms. McConnell first home-school their three 
 children, and then moved into a high school 
 teaching career with a Catholic high school 
 in Salt Lake City. When still another academic 
 move (this time to Stanford University) 
 took the family to Palo Alto, she continued working 
 as a curriculum consultant and teacher, 
 and began putting concurrent enrollment and 
 AP courses online for her school. A self-described 
 "Paleo" teacher, Mary McConnell 
 has become intrigued by the potential of 
 online education, but also concerned that its 
 proponents may be promising more than online 
 teaching can deliver.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Kim Allan\n
 Contact phone: 353-3381\n
 Contact email: ALLANK@MSU.EDU\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://jmc.msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Case Hall Library, 3rd floor South
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