OAKLAND, Calif. -- English-language learners have the lowest scores on the California High School Exit Exam and the lowest rates of college attendance in the state. Zhuanyi Deng hopes to change all that.
New America Media Education Editor Carolyn Ji Jong reports.
New America Media, News Report, by Carolyn Ji Jong Goossen, Posted: May 28, 2009
OAKLAND, Calif. -- English-language learners have the lowest scores on the California High School Exit Exam and the lowest rates of college attendance in the state. Zhuanyi Deng hopes to change all that.
Deng is part of a group of Cantonese-speaking low-income students who went to high school largely unaware that they had to take a certain set of courses to be eligible to attend the University of California or California State University. They are determined not to let other students meet the same fate.
Zhuanyi Deng and MuTing Cen, members of Asian Immigrant
Women Advocates youth group, work on their speeches.
She is on her way to a lunchtime meeting with the heads of the English Language Learner program at Oakland Technical High School. Deng and fellow youth group member Jessica Chen are presenting a guide they have developed with other Chinese immigrant youth in Oakland to help English-language learners in the district navigate the A-G series of courses necessary for California high school students to be eligible to enter a public four-year college.
As they walk toward the classroom where the meeting will be held, they speak softly...
Judge Sharon Waters rules on the Save Our Chinatown case against the City of Riverside.
News release from the Save Our Chinatown Committee
September 5, 2009
Hello, Everyone,
We have ALL been waiting to hear Judge Sharon Waters' decision, so here's the news. Please find below
1) The SOCC press release, and
2) the article about the decision from the Press Enterprise.
Both documents are also available at our website - http://saveourchinatown.org .
Watch for the next updates that
a) will let you know some of our next steps and how you can help us, and
b) news of our recent activities.
Keep up the support and good thoughts; we will need all that and your continued help!
Blessings,
Judy
for the Save Our Chinatown Committee (SOCC)
http://saveourchinatown.org
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Freed journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee are home at last.
After 140 long days into the North Korean nightmare of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, an unexpected visitor arrived, former President Bill Clinton.
On Tuesday, August 4 in a surprise move, ex-President Bill Clinton flew to Pyongyang on a private mission to bring Laura Ling and Euna Lee home.
He traveled as a private citizen on a humanitarian mission.
Although not an official government sanctioned visit, Clinton was greeted by Yang Hyong Sop, Vice-President of the Presidium of the Supreme Peoples Assembly, and Kim Kye Gwan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and was presented with flowers by a young Korean girl.
After meeting with Kim Jong-il, the reclusive Korean leader granted a special pardon to Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
Shortly, thereafter, they were on a plane headed for the U.S.
On March 17 Ling and Lee were detained in North Korea while on assignment for San Francisco-based Current TV a media venture founded by former Vice President Al Gore.
Ling and Lee were stopped and later arrested by North Korean border guards while they were shooting video along the China/North Korea border for a story they were working on about the trafficking of women in the region.
Both women were transported to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, where they remained under arrest until their trial.
They were found guilty on June 8 and sentenced to 12 years of reform through labor for illegal entry and grave crimes...
October 12, 2011:
Peace Boat will be holding a special event on October 13, reporting and looking back on the activities in the 200 days since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, and announcing the launch of the Peace Boat Disaster Relief Volunteer Leader Training Programme. This programme will train people in disaster relief skills to ensure that the effects of future disasters can be mitigated. Please join us to learn about our work, our future goals, and to connect with other Peace Boat supporters. For more information on this event and about Peace Boat click here.
August 18, 2011:
Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami created huge Icebergs in Antarctica.
Satellite image evidence show icebergs broke off in Antarctica, collectively the size of 50 square miles approximately, or two times the surface size of Manhattan, in about 18 hours from the time the initial Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hit 8,000 miles away in Japan on March 11, 2011.
The findings were published online in the Journal of Glaciology. It is the first known direct observation of a connection between tsunamis and icebergs. Click here for the story on the NASA website, and to view the multimedia satellite images taken by the European Space Agency/Envisat, MODIS Rapid Response/NASA, and NASA/Goddard.
July 10, 2011:
A major earthquake with the magnitude of 7.1 has hit off Japan's northeastern coast Sunday July 10, 2011. The U.S. Geological...
As violence is escalating against journalists working in war-torn countries, low profile or nearly invisible still and video cameras, and content capture and distribution technologies are becoming necessary survival gear.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has reported an unprecedented number of casualties: eleven journalists have been killed this year worldwide, eight of the eleven in the Middle East, one in Vietnam, one in the Philippines, and one in Mexico. CPF reports that there have been more than 300 attacks on journalists covering the recent political unrest in the Middle East.
CNN's Anderson Cooper and his camera crew were attacked by pro-government supporters on February 2, 2011 in Cairo while covering the Egyptian conflict. A video shot by Cooper for CNN's AC360 can be seen on this link. Cooper was able to keep his small Flip video camera recording, as he was escaping from his attackers. While Cooper was able to broadcast his reports and fly back to New York, many other journalists have not been as lucky. Some have been jailed, brutally beaten, stabbed or shot, their equipment destroyed, or worse - killed.
The large, conspicuous shoulder mounted video cameras have quickly been replaced by low profile gear such as the miniature Flip video cameras. Laptops are being replaced in the field by iPhones and other cell phones which can transmit still images, audio and video, and update blogs, Twitter and Facebook accounts.