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Lumen Castañeda and the art of teaching from the heart
By Maricar CP Hampton In Lumen Castañeda’s time, there was no bullying and there were no female teachers sleeping with their students. Maybe there were, but she never saw any of that. Such incidents were rare and not standard fare in the news as they are today. Castañeda – Tita Lumen to many in the […]
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Jersey City Council moves to qualify DREAMers for in-state tuition, financial aid
The Jersey City Council on February 27th approved a resolution proposing to allow undocumented children to qualify for in-state tuition and access to state financial aid at New Jersey’s public colleges and universities. The resolution was jointly sponsored by Councilman-At-Large Rolando R. Lavarro, Jr. and Ward C Councilwoman Nidia Lopez. Outside, DREAM Act immigrants, activists […]
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FilAms petition Stony Brook University to reinstate Asian studies official
Filipino American writers and artists came out in support of a Stony Brook University official after her position as director of Wang Center’s Asian and Asian American Programming was eliminated in a reorganization. “It is with much wistfulness that I inform you that my Directorship of the Wang Center’s Asian and Asian American Programming is […]
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Teaching in Thailand, paving the path to my future
By Ryann Michele Tanap A year ago, I was in a terrible panic. As a senior at the College of William and Mary, I was dreading the uncertain future. I wanted to know what my life plan was. I prayed that someone would serve it to me on a platter: a step-by-step instructional guide on […]
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Gabriel Esteban: The ‘accidental president’
By Cristina DC Pastor For Gabriel Esteban, the road to Seton Hall University was one that began with mediocre school grades and reinforced by a lot of hard work. “I was never the smartest person, but I would not let anyone outwork me,” said the 20th president of Seton Hall University and the first Filipino […]
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Time-traveling to Lower Manhattan circa 1900s
By Cristina DC Pastor About two dozen students from the Chinese Progressive Association visited the Tenement Museum recently as part of their English as a Second Language class activity. I was one of the ESL teachers who went with them. We met “Victoria Confino,” a 14-year-old Sephardic Jewish immigrant. We, the students and the teachers, […]
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Wanted: FilAms to teach in the Philippines
An organization called Teach for the Philippines, which seeks to expand educational opportunities in the motherland, is looking for teachers. Angela Lagdameo and Michael Vea, co-directors of Strategy for Recruitment and Selection in the USA, are searching for 10 outstanding Filipino Americans to be a part of the inaugural corps of Teach for the Philippines. […]
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Language school is now in Queens
The Filipino School of New York & New Jersey will open a second location in the fall. FilAm parents may enroll their students for language and culture classes at the office of Nodutdol for Korean Community Development located at 53-22 Roosevelt Avenue, 2nd Floor in Woodside. The eight-week fall/winter semester is now accepting enrollment for […]
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Bedans reach out to the children of Zamboanga
By Cristina DC Pastor In a remote village in Zamboanga City, public school children thought nothing of wading waist-deep into the muddy river just so they could go to school. Wearing street clothes and rubber shoes, they would cross the shallow waters for about two kilometers to get to Talon-Talon Elementary School, their white uniforms […]