Category Archives: Education

Storytelling is the New English Teacher

Posted on March 2, 2010

We Are New York is an Emmy-nominated half-hour TV show. You can watch the show on Saturdays at 4:00 pm and Sundays at 7:20 am on Channel 25 (or Channel 22 on Cablevision). You can also watch it on Tuesdays … Continue reading →

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18 Year Old Immigrant From Poland A Success Story In America

Posted on November 2, 2009

I remember hearing about this story featured more than a year ago on the Today Show: Lukasz Zbylut, a high school student in Brooklyn, who emigrated from Poland in 2003, applied to seven Ivy League schools — and was accepted by every … Continue reading →

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Borscht & Boardwalks at Brighton Beach

Posted on October 29, 2009

One of my classmates kindly shared a link to a project called City of Memory, a web-based memory project covering New York City areas. Here, you can find stories that relate to the history and personality of NYC’s overall history; … Continue reading →

Under: Culture, Education, NYC, Oral History, Public Programs, Russian
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Good Magazine: Taking in the World's Huddled Masses

Posted on October 24, 2009

Good Magazine produced a video on immigration: “People have flocked to the melting pot we now know as America for the last 13,000 years. Since 2000, the U.S. has welcomed more than 10 million immigrants, who leave behind places like … Continue reading →

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