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The Latino version of Brown vs. Board of Education

Tue, 04/06/2010 - 15:22

From the Restore Fairness blog.

It was like discovering gold.

When she was in college, Sandra Mendez discovered something about her past that changed the way she looked at her parents forever. An American of Mexican-Puerto Rican descent, Sandra grew up unaware that her brave immigrant parents had been responsible for paving the path to racial desegregation in schools.


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Anti-Asian Violence in South Philadelphia Schools

Wed, 09/02/2009 - 21:53

The Philadelphia Weekly just published an interesting story about Asian American students, mostly immigrants, who attend schools in South Philly, being racially targeted by both White and African American peers.  By fighting back, Asian American students are finding themselves in disciplinary difficulties.  Despite the fact that both Black and White students


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Success!: Lori Phanachone Victory

Thu, 04/09/2009 - 22:09

Remember Lori Phanachone, the amazingly fierce high school senior in Iowa? We wrote about her fight against testing gone haywire, amidst the perfect storm between No Child Left Behind and the ridiculous English only law in Iowa.


Update: Lori Phanachone

Fri, 03/27/2009 - 11:13

It seems that a lot of you readers have been contacting the folks at Storm Lake School District, where Lori Phanachone, a high school senior is waging a noble fight against a lame test that I really think is discriminatory in effect to children of immigrants. I just received an email from the superintendent in Storm Lake, which reads:


Lori Phanachone: Fierce Asian American Sister!

Tue, 03/17/2009 - 16:26

Just caught wind of this over at Angry Asian Man...

Lori Phanachone, a 2nd generation Laotian American (she was born in Cali) senior at Storm Lake High School in Storm Lake, Iowa is waging a one-woman battle against demeaning tests that have emerged from No Child Left Behind and Iowa's dumb English-only law. This sister is FIERCE!!!!

Lori Phanachone - FIERCE Asian American Sister!

Just because Lori mentioned that she speaks a language other than English at home, she is being forced to take a very basic English-proficiency exam in order to participate in senior privileges. Sister is 7th in her graduating class, has a 3.9 GPA, on the track team, and is in the National Honor Society.  Wild guess, but I think she's got to be proficient in English by now, like so many of us 1.5 and 2nd generation kids. She is refusing to take the test, and has been suspended from school!


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Nerdy Fun at NYTimes.com with Immigration and Education

Sun, 03/15/2009 - 20:14
Over at the New York Times website, they're doing a really interesting series on how immigration is "remaking" America. Funny, since I thought immigrants have always been making and defining America.

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Tipsheet on Commerce Nominee Locke

Mon, 03/02/2009 - 10:15

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For those of you trying to find out more information on Commerce Secretary-nominee Gary Locke and his positions on various issues, here's a little handy guide from the National Journal that compares his positions with those of the two previous nominees Bill Richardson and Judd Gregg.

We've excerpted his bio and his positions for you after the flip.


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UC Admissions "Scandal" of 2009!... Yo, let's not freak out... just yet (Part 5 of 6)

Tue, 02/17/2009 - 22:29
The Joint API Legislative Caucus has concerns that the proposed UC eligibility and admissions policy, which has wide ranging ramifications and unknown consequences, has not received the proper public vetting it deserves. The current proposal has only been available for public review for a few months before being presented to the UC Regents for a decision. Outreach regarding the eligibility proposal to the Joint API Legislative Caucus, API civil rights organizations, or API higher education associations has been non-existent. - Letter from Joint API Legislative Caucus to UC Regents, 02.03.09
Hello again, fair readers! Sorry that this post is going up a little later than the last ones have. After the long weekend, I had to go back to school/work.  Today, we're gonna review the last point in the Caucus' letter. I hate to be a stickler and be kinda repetitive, but in the first sentence of the paragraph, I need to correct that the new policy is not regarding admissions. It defines who is Entitled to Review in the UC admissions process. So it's an admissions eligibility policy. But I digress back to earlier posts. And really, what the Caucus is saying hits on a broader issue of how the UC conducts its business (public shared governance? PFFFFT! Whatever!) and how AAPI's engage with the UC... and really how AAPI's aren't very organized in articulating AAPI interests in education policy making overall. Yup! We're gonna critique the UC governance structure, but then take a self-reflexive turn. After all, self-reflexivity and dialogue are the keys to community progress! Corny? Yet so true... so Freirean!

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