Here is a round-up of articles that have been recently published about East-West:
Yomiuri Shimbun: Quake seen as 'teachable moment' in U.S.
During a third-year high school class at the East-West School of International Studies in New York's Queens borough, students asked this reporter, "How long will it take Japan to recover completely?" and "Why did they build nuclear power plants where earthquakes were expected to occur?"
Rather than a place of one-sided instruction, the classroom was filled with lively discussion.
"The school has an emphasis on Japanese, Korean and Chinese languages and cultures," said Paul Allison, 51, an English teacher. The school has about 550 students, and about half are of Asian descent.
"So when the [March 11 earthquake and] tsunami happened, a lot of [teachers] decided they wanted to bring it into the classroom," he said.
Broadway World: NYC Parks And Yale Univ Celebrate Research Collaboration At Kissena
Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Alex Felson, Assistant Professor at Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Patrice Kleinberg, Director of Education & Visitor Services at the Queens Botanical Garden and eighth graders from East West School of International Studies in Flushing, celebrated a research and reforestation collaboration between the Parks Department and Yale University at Kissena Corridor Park by planting trees and collecting data on the existing trees that were planted last fall.
The Flushing Times: Principals Swap Ideas at East-West School
“We are preparing students for a world in which Asia is growing in importance,” Sherman said. “To our guests from the Hangzhou school, we are looking to build this relationship so that principal to principal, teacher to teacher and student to student we can learn from each other .... This kind of cross-cultural pollination, like the coming of spring, helps to re-energize our schools.”
World Journal: 世界新聞網-北美華文新聞、華商資訊 - 「東」「西」學校碰撞 盼交流同進步 (Chinese)
Checker S: ニューヨークやカルフォルニアで (Japanese)