2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark case that made mixed-race marriages legal. It’s hard to imagine that mixed-race marriages were illegal until quite recently. What is the outcome of making mixed-race marriages legal? Anti-miscegenation laws or miscegenation laws are laws that enforce racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by…
Category: Education
Education and parenting. Helping your child with reading, math, science and getting along with others.
Segregation in California Schools: What They Don’t Teach in History Books
What amazes me the most is that I grew up in Seal Beach, California, one town over from Westminster, where Sylvia Mendez and Aki Munemitsu both lived. When Aki and her family were forced to leave their farm during WWII and live incarcerated at internment camps, a banker helped her family lease their land so…
Celebrate the Tokyo Olympics with a Round Up of Activities
Are you watching the Tokyo Olympics? It’s a different viewing experience for me from past Olympics. Except when the Olympics are being played at a restaurant, I’m not glued to the television anymore; I’m now trained to view everything off my phone which means that I’m watching the Tokyo Olympics through short video clips on…
Tulsa Race Massacre: What They Don’t Teach You in History Books
“This history was totally hidden from white children. And that was deliberate.” from The Atlantic I think that the Tulsa Race Massacre may have garnered a single sentence in my history book when I studied A.P. History in high school in Southern California. A single sentence or even paragraph isn’t enough to do it justice,…
The Chinese Exclusion Act – What They Don’t Teach in History Books
I’m kicking off a series that I call “What They Don’t Teach in History Books.” These are topics that are generally erased from history. I don’t remember ever learning about them at school. I will center each topic using children’s books. I plan to add videos and other links to make each topic a more…
AAC: Communication Doesn’t Come in a Single Form
Communication is an essential part of all beings. We do it all the time in many forms. However, autistic children and people with special needs may have issues with traditional forms of communication. Adults and children with speech or language problems or delays may need to figure out communication ways. This is where augmentative and…
Five Ways to Pay for College
College is a very good investment if you are looking to get ahead in the business world, with many studies showing that those who studied at an institute of higher education make more on average than those who don’t. The downside of this is the student debt — which can balloon into the tens and…