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Vernon Smith Nobel Prize Winner and Autistic
Added: 15th July 2007
Posted By: teachme
Views: 331
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Understanding that different styles of learning do not imply inability to learn is essential to creating a more inclusive educational environment.

Tags: Asperger's autistic nobel winner learning education
Free Resource - Liberty Map
Added: 31st October 2007
Posted By: horazio
Views: 452
Comments: 0

An educational interactive map of the USA. So kids can learn the cities and state names while playing!

Tags: usa map america city capital united states maps
New CD to teach kids with Autism or PDD
Added: 5th June 2008
Posted By: helpingtogrow
Views: 70
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This new CD was developed to teach children with Autism, PDD and other learning delays and difficulties.

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Early Chinatown
Added: 23rd July 2008
Posted By: asiancdcorg
Views: 36
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Dating back to the 1880s, Boston Chinatown is one of the oldest continuous residential Chinatown communities in the U.S., a little known fact not adequately celebrated in Boston's history. This piece covers the arrival of the first Chinese immigrants in New England, brought in to break a strike...

Tags: Boston Chinatown Asian American History Chinese Culture
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Added: 24th July 2008
Posted By: asiancdcorg
Views: 32
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Passed in 1882 and in effect until 1943, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first U.S. law to ban immigration by race or nationality. Using images from actual Chinese Exclusion Act case files, this poignant piece discusses its ramifications and how U.S. Chinatown developed in response to racial...

Tags: Boston Chinatown Asian American History Chinese History
Family Associations
Added: 24th July 2008
Posted By: asiancdcorg
Views: 28
Comments: 2

Traced back to Southern China and the clannish nature of Chinese culture, family associations play a unique role in U.S. Chinatowns. During the Chinese Exclusion Act and in times of extreme discrimination, family associations were not simply a social haven. They provided work and housing...

Tags: Boston Chinatown Asian American History Chinese Culture
It
Added: 28th July 2008
Posted By: asiancdcorg
Views: 17
Comments: 0

What most people think of Chinatown, they immediately think of food. Is Chinatown simply a place for food and services? Is it more? This piece explores these questions, the contributions of restaurants to Chinatown, how “taste” has shifted with the population’s changing demographics and...

Tags: Boston Chinatown Chinese food live work
Boston
Added: 28th July 2008
Posted By: asiancdcorg
Views: 17
Comments: 0

The area Chinatown occupies has always been an immigrant, working-class community, driven by the proximity of labor and transportation. Originally an Irish community, it later became a predominantly Syrian-Lebanese community that was also home to Jewish and West-African-Barbadian immigrants....

Tags: Boston Chinatown Syrian Lebanese Jewish Chinese community
The Combat Zone
Added: 28th July 2008
Posted By: asiancdcorg
Views: 17
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The Combat Zone is an area within Chinatown that is legally zoned as an adult entertainment district. Deriving its name from the port-of-call sailors who frequented Boston for centuries, the Combat Zone was codified and moved to Washington Street to make way for Boston’s new City Hall. During...

Tags: Boston Chinatown combat zone community activism
Boston
Added: 28th July 2008
Posted By: asiancdcorg
Views: 19
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Boston is home to what is believed to be the only Asian women’s lion dance troupe, the Gund Kwok Asian Women’s Lion Dance Troupe. Founder Cheng Imm Tan recounts the group’s origins, the history and symbolism of lion dancing, an earlier Boston women’s dance troupe and shares what it is like to be...

Tags: Boston Asian women lion dance chinese culture