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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

A graduate degree

Hi~

I don't understand the meanig of some words in a context.

Please check them and share your thoughts.

Any comments would be a big help for me. Thank you~!

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Q1: What do you think the words "a graduate degree" mean here? BA or MA ? or anything else ?


Ms. B received a graduate degree in Educational Leadership

from Montclair State University and is currently the Math Supervisor

(K–5) for the West Orange Public Schools.


Q2: Is the phrase "Middle Level" related to "the length of a dissertation"? Like the number of words/pages?


He received the 2003 National Association of Secondary Schools’ Principals

Middle Level Dissertation of the Year Award.


Q3: Could you explain the part underlined about what that means?


As an educator, D has a reputation for working up against the edge of convention and out of the box, turning tradition on its head and delivering concrete results.




  

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Anonymous As an educator, D has a reputation for working up against the edge of convention and out of the box, turning tradition on its head and delivering concrete results. This means that they working in a way that is not the norm (conventions). They are being creative in their methods (out of the box).

— Gingernut

  • Anonymous As an educator, D has a reputation for working up against the edge of convention and out of the box, turning tradition on its head and delivering concrete results.
  • This means that they working in a way that is not the norm (conventions).
  • They are being creative in their methods (out of the box).
  • Turning something on it's head, is a way of saying that you are doing the opposite.
  • Essentially, the author has said the exact same thing in three different ways with very subtle differences.
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AnonymousAs an educator, D has a reputation for working up against the edge of convention and out of the box, turning tradition on its head and delivering concrete results.

This means that they working in a way that is not the norm (conventions). They are being creative in their methods (out o

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Q1: Degrees earned after you graduate with a bachelor's degree are usually called post-graduate degrees. I assume that is what the writer means.

Q2: I don't know, but I doubt it.

Q3: Could you explain the part underlined about what that means?

up against the edge of convention The writer seems to mean 'very unconventional', but to me this phrase

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