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Viet high school counselor won Yale’s “Educator Award”

Huy Tran (left) helping senior Derik Pham apply to colleges. Photo by Olivia Le, La Quinta H.S. Yearbook photographer, courtesy of Huy Tran. A Vietnamese-American counselor at a high-Viet-concentration high school in Bolsavikland has been honored by Yale University with its … Continue reading

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Get Viet voices heard in lessons about Vietnam War

The Bolsavik got this email from Duc Nguyen, the director of Bolinao 52 (the documentary about boat people who were stranded at sea and had to resort to cannibalism). Duc’s email has nothing to do with boat people. It’s about … Continue reading

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Two Viet teachers among Milken Foundation award winners

Two Vietnamese-American educators are among the 75 winners of the prestigious Milken Family Foundation for 2007. The awards were given out at a banquet in L.A. yesterday. Social studies teacher John B. Nguyen (photo right), of James Hillhouse High School in New Haven, … Continue reading

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