(Updated) An 11 year old's experience of volunteering for Obama campaign
For Chinese children, politics is boring lecture notes in the class. But for children in the U.S., it is an everyday real life experience. Here is an 11 year old Chinese boy's experience of the US...
View ArticleDifferent views of school tests between Chinese and American parents
Is the US education system broken? Or is the Chinese system too rigid and smothers creativity? These questions have been hotly debated for a long time.Below is translated from my Chinese newspaper...
View ArticleCompeting to attend a special high school - Fallacies of Chinese American...
Although Kuang-Ye is only in sixth grade, I need to consider his high school very soon. A Chinese middle school student has asked me how to apply for a high school in the US. Many readers of my column...
View ArticleCurriculum Night and Auction Night ---My son won a meeting with a NY state...
Last night was a big night for my son’s middle school: it was the annual Curriculum night and Auction night.The Curriculum night started in the late afternoon. There are different activities and...
View ArticleMy Sixth Grade Son’s Non-violent Organization
In 2007 my son Kuang was six years old and he was in first grade in China. One day, Kuang and a friend were playing outside. They saw a large group of sixth-graders playing with ants, drowning them...
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A Boy’s Thoughts On His Coming Of Age
I held a nice Coming of Age Ceremony for my 12-year-old son Kuang on Feb.9, 2014, one of a day in the Chinese New Year Celebration. It was in a conference room at Teachers College, Columbia...
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