K2Twelve
Posts that were on my now defunct education blog, K2Twelve.
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A version of this list appears on k2twelve.com and ricedaddies.com. Mia Wenjen’s Jade Luck Club has the most extensive and current bibliography of Young Adult books about the Asian American experience and by Asian American authors that I have come across. I asked Mia if she would compile a summer reading list of Asian American
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Netflix is streaming Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine. The movie is as good as I remember it. But watching it now as a former New York City school teacher and a father of two, there’s a message there that wasn’t there when I first saw the movie (pre-classroom and pre-parenthood). It’s a message about the
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Right around the fifth paragraph of Marie Lee’s op-ed in the New York Times To Sir With Love started playing in my head. It’s right around there she introduces us to Ms. Leibfried, her high school English teacher. It is Ms. Leibfried who “appeared at a critical juncture” in Marie’s life and gave her the
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AM New York ran two highly entertaining and highly distracting (and highly debatable) articles: A timeline of TV theme songs and a ranking of the Top 5 TV themes. Another reader (@KENNECTED) and I have been a little perplexed by the writer Robert Spuhler’s choices (or more accurately, omissions). I am not sure I trust
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An abridged version of this post appears on the K2Twelve blog. For one reason or another I am unable to post the complete version there, so I’m doing it here: I caught the tail end of the Crime Dramas episode of the PBS series, Pioneers of Television. Of the detective show I have the fondest
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http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=130188627&m=130188605&t=audio There was an interesting discussion on NPR’s Tell Me More about fathers getting involved in their children’s education. I didn’t respond in time to be on air but wrote a post accompanying the segment. Also interesting is bigWOWO’s podcast of his conversation with two recent Asian American fathers. The two events got me thinking
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http://www.youtube.com/v/Dj4H3Ioxs6s&hl=en<\/embed><\/object><\/div>";” alt=””> Even before my eldest could write proper words, I made him keep a journal. I was inspired by a friend of ours whose daughter (same age as my eldest) kept a sketchbook diary – images of events she felt were important to record. Every week I would ask him to “write” – usually
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This weekend it occurred to me Mark Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve is an allegory for educational policy, practice, and reform. An extract from Adam’s diary on Monday: This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don’t like
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