Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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 at 11:00 pm on Channel 34 (or RCN Channel 92 or Verizon Channel 33). The […]
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Tags: English, NYC, TV show, We Are New York
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 one of them. He decided to enroll in his “dream school” of choice — Harvard. Read […]
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Tags: immigrant, Poland, Story, Video
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; the stories are organized by an interactive map or themes. City of Memory is a […]
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Tags: Brighton Beach, City of Memory, design, Video, website
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 the Philippines, India, China, and Mexico. Our latest video, “Coming to America,” explores the history, […]
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Tags: Culture, design, Statistics, Video
International Arrivals 