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Facebook Money Funds Chinese in Newark School
The Chinese language is being taught for the first time in a new public high school in Newark, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s high-profile $100 million donation two years ago can take some of the credit.
Bard High School Early College opened in the Springfield neighborhood in Newark last fall, with 87 ninth graders and 36 11th graders, and the goal of helping gifted students get a jump on college. Eventually the high school will have about 400 ninth through 12th graders.
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Bard High School Early College opened in the Springfield neighborhood in Newark last fall, with 87 ninth graders and 36 11th graders, and the goal of helping gifted students get a jump on college. Eventually the high school will have about 400 ninth through 12th graders.
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Test Prep Center Sends Record Number of Bangladeshi Students to City's Elite Schools
While many boys his age were playing video games or sports, a 14-year-old from Bangladesh spent every Saturday afternoon since last summer studying math and English at Khan’s Tutorial, a test preparation center in Jamaica, Queens.
Joydeep Baidya, an 8th grader in Intermediate School 238 in Jamaica, said he had no regrets, when he found out in late March that he scored 592 out of a possible 800 on the New York City Specialized High School Admissions Test, high enough to gain admission into Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School, one of the city’s top public high schools.
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Joydeep Baidya, an 8th grader in Intermediate School 238 in Jamaica, said he had no regrets, when he found out in late March that he scored 592 out of a possible 800 on the New York City Specialized High School Admissions Test, high enough to gain admission into Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School, one of the city’s top public high schools.
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Helping Chinese Parents Learn the ABCs of American Schools
Mina Yang considers herself only half a tiger mom.
A mother of two teenage daughters, she said she sent them to many classes starting in kindergarten: piano, swimming, dance and painting. She also made them go to Chinese school on the weekends until they were in 10th grade.
“Asian parents always want to do their best for their kids,” said Yang, who was born in Guangzhou and moved to Hong Kong before immigrating to the United States more than two decades ago. “For Chinese parents, whether you are selling vegetables on the streets or you are a Ph.D., you want a good education for your kids.”
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A mother of two teenage daughters, she said she sent them to many classes starting in kindergarten: piano, swimming, dance and painting. She also made them go to Chinese school on the weekends until they were in 10th grade.
“Asian parents always want to do their best for their kids,” said Yang, who was born in Guangzhou and moved to Hong Kong before immigrating to the United States more than two decades ago. “For Chinese parents, whether you are selling vegetables on the streets or you are a Ph.D., you want a good education for your kids.”
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