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.
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