Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
“Chink!” “Jap!” “Where are you from?” “Do you eat dog?” “Why don’t you go back to where you came from?” “Do you know Kung-Fu?” From the racist to the innocuous, issues of culture, ethnicity, and discrimination are prevalent themes for Asian minorities in the United States. The Asian desire to be “American” and fit into mainstream society in the U.S. can be challenging as…
My 13-year-old son’s Exotic Fruit Challenge: Kumquat My son and I started down this exotic fruit challenge a few years ago, and it’s been a fun adventure to try new things. This challenge is the kumquat that you eat in its entirety. Kumquats are very small, about the size of large olives. I have a…
It might seem like it’s tough to get recruited for college sports during COVID-19 with the spring season canceled for most youth sports teams but my co-author of The Elusive Full Ride Scholarship: An Insider’s Guide, Alison Foley, says that now is actually a good time to communicate with coaches. She shares her advice in…
The unthinkable happened. Olympics have been canceled due to war in 1916, 1940, and 1944 but this is the first time in the history of the Olympics that the games have been postponed. What does this mean for the Olympic athletes? Let me tell you about my boxing trainer, Marc Gargaro… Marc has been training…
You studied hard to get accepted into your dream college or university and now that you are finally on your way to a new stage of your life, you might feel anxious that you might not belong or fit anywhere once you arrive at your new school. The first few weeks or months of college…
