CULTURE

"The Cultural Orientation Resource (COR) Center provides important orientation resources for refugee newcomers and service providers throughout the United States and overseas."

Cultural Adjustment Lesson Plan - Being on Time: A Quiz and Discussion - from Cultural Orientation Resource Center

The International Rescue Commmittee has a 70 year history of refugee relief, respect and renewal.

2011 International Holidays spreadsheet

This site has information on tourism for each of the 50 states.

Infoplease.com is a site with very interesting information on various topics including history, government, biographies, arts, business, society and culture, health and science, and the daily almanac. There is also an atlas, a dictionary, and an encyclopedia.

This site contains lesson plans for "Understanding Taxes"

This article reports the results of a study of the learning styles of English learners (Armenian, Hmong, Korean, Mexican, and Vietnamese) in secondary schools. But it also includes discussions of other studies of learning styles in various cultures.

This digest identifies cultural values that may impact the learning processes of Hispanic-American students, reviews the research on the learning styles of Hispanic-American students, and discusses the implications of this research for counseling and teaching Hispanic youth.