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News Round Up: Felicia Lee and More

Momo Chang - November 4, 2009

+ There've been a couple of interesting posts at Reappropriate and cross posted at Racialicious in the past weeks about whether there's an anti-Asian bias in universities and colleges. Weigh in with your thoughts here [1] and here [2].

+ I have been reading NurtureShock [3], about parenting/schooling, and learned about Deborah Leong [4], one of the creators of Tools of the Mind. She and Elena Bodrova developed a preschool curriculum that's been successfully replicated in many low income areas. Where there was chaos before, there's now concentration, self-restraint and cooperation. What?! That is one awesome lady in my book. I know next to nothing about her and the Tools of the Mind curriculum, except what I've read in NurtureShock, but anyone who comes up with a role-playing based curriculum for very energetic little kids is kickass in my book. (p.s. more on the race chapter in NurtureShock to come in a different post).
+ An interesting story [5] at New American Media about a free acupuncture clinic in San Francisco that's seen a rise in patients due to the economy, people being laid off and people losing their health insurance. Conversely, though, private Chinese medicine practitioners are seeing a decline in clients, according to the article. 
+ Rich Twu of the Dream League, an Asian American basketball league, informs me that he has a new blog in which you can read about everything Dream League and basketball here. He has a couple of posts on Harvard b-ball star Jeremy Lin here [6] and here [7]. 
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Links
[1] http://www.reappropriate.com/2009/10/14/anti-asian-bias-in-college-admissions-part-1-an-improper-comparison/ [2] http://www.racialicious.com/2009/10/28/anti-asian-bias-in-college-admissions-part-2-%E2%80%93-in-support-of-affirmative-action/ [3] http://www.nurtureshock.com/ [4] http://nieer.org/about/bio.php?PersonID=8 [5] http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=cf5aff3468e8c60e2c43f93e0519f84b [6] http://www.dreamleague.org/blog/legend-of-jeremy-lin-1of2/ [7] http://www.dreamleague.org/blog/legend-of-jeremy-lin-2of2/ [8] https://hyphenmagazine.com/categories/gender-and-sexuality [9] https://hyphenmagazine.com/categories/news-and-politics