This is a review of Anchee Min’s Pearl of China that I wrote for the Associated Press. It’s always nice to see my byline. Once a journalist, always a writer. Min spins fictional account of Buck’s early life By MONICA RHOR, For The Associated Press Mon Mar 29, 12:00 am ET “Pearl of China” (Bloomsbury …
It was Deadline Day at YES Prep North Central, the day college applications were supposed to be finished, the day essays, personal statements and a seemingly endless series of forms needed to be slipped into white envelopes, ready for submission. The day the school’s first graduating class would take one leap closer to college. The …
In 2013, Massachusetts voters approved a ballot referendum requiring public schools to teach English by immersion, a system in which immigrant students spend a year learning almost entirely in English before moving to mainstream classrooms. Massachusetts, the first state to introduce a bilingual education law in 1971, was the third in the nation to see it …