Category Archives: Education

How To Be A Bad Asian: Not Putting Your Kids In a Good School

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Tim

Life is hard enough as an Asian. Not all of us can get perfect SAT  scores, graduate from medical school, or trick out a Honda Civic. The pressure to embrace our culture remains, but sometimes, we just don’t want to. How … Continue reading →

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UC Irvine Asian American Lambda Theta Delta Fraternity’s Blackface Video

Posted on April 27, 2013 by jozjozjoz

On April 16, 2013, fraternity Lambda Theta Delta (LTD), UC Irvine’s first and largest Asian American interest fraternity, posted a video which showed one of the members appearing in blackface (around the 0:55 mark). Julianne Hing of Colorlines says, “the … Continue reading →

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Diversity: Getting Into College, And What Happened After I Got Accepted

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Guest Writer

By Betty Chen We’re well past April first now, which is both a day for April Fools’ and the national college notification date. Some of my friends received good news, some bad. But what I really want to talk about … Continue reading →

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Cornell: Asian Americans Not Held to Higher Admissions Standard

Posted on March 12, 2013 by John

In the past few months, there has been a lot of discussion about college admissions at “elite” universities, especially after The Myth of American Meritocracy – How corrupt are Ivy League admissions? was published in The American Conservative and a … Continue reading →

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The Daily Show: Michelle Rhee

Posted on March 7, 2013 by John

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Last month, Tina had blogged about Michelle Rhee and her distaste for Rhee’s maniacal focus focus on standardized testing. I think I had first heard of Rhee when she graced the cover of Time … Continue reading →

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Young, Deaf, Samoan and Bballin’ Down the Court

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Jeff

After Number Two Son played in a basketball tournament that had a team from California School for the Deaf (CSD), I was immediately intrigued when I saw this video by Tama Irie from Silicon Valley De-Bug.  The video features Easter … Continue reading →

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8Asians Reader Response: Reaction to UCLA Racist Posters

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Guest Writer

EDITOR’S NOTE: For the last few days, the Asian American websphere has been buzzing about two possibly related incidents at UCLA which campus police are investigating as hate crimes. This was submitted by a Cornell student in response to the … Continue reading →

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Racist and Sexist Signs Calling Asian Women ‘White-Boy Worshipping Whores’ Posted at UCLA

Posted on November 30, 2012 by jozjozjoz

For the last few days, the Asian American websphere has been buzzing about two possibly related incidents at UCLA which campus police are investigating as hate crimes. On Tuesday, a student discovered a piece of paper with the words “asian … Continue reading →

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Learn Taiwanese from Mike Campbell

Posted on November 30, 2012 by tinabot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_670016&feature=iv&src_vid=MXb-DRDCX-s&v=y44Q2iBxTZ0 Whenever I visited Taiwan as a child, my family and friends there were always so very impressed with my Taiwanese, and not just because I was the American kid. Other kids my age or generation who had grown up … Continue reading →

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How One Transgender Korean American Found Inspiration From Her Birth Mother

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Moye

Andy Marra, a Korean adoptee, shares the touching story about tracking down her Korean birth mother, whose love and acceptance allowed her to continue her male-to-female transition: “To this day I am astounded by my mother’s supernatural intuition despite the … Continue reading →

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Admissions Test Prep: Stepping Stone to Asian Americans, Considered Unfair by Others

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Jeff

New York City’s top academic high schools like Bronx Science (pictured above) and Stuyvesant have one entrance criteria:  performance on the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT). While many Asian American families look at SHSAT preparation courses as a stepping … Continue reading →

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NYU Shanghai: First US China Joint College Established

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Jeff

NYU Shanghai, the first US China Joint College, was established this month.  A joint venture of New York University and Shanghai’s East China Normal University, the school will open its doors next year to some 300 students of which about … Continue reading →

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