The Ethnic System of Supplementary Education: Nonprofit and For-Profit Institutions in Los Angeles’ Chinese Immigrant Community

2008 ◽  
pp. 229-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Supplementary Education ◽  
For Profit

scholarly journals Challenges and Strategies for Promoting Children’s Education: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Immigrant Parenting in the United States and Singapore

Genealogy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhou ◽  
Jun Wang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Parenting Strategies ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education

Confucian heritage culture holds that a good education is the path to upward social mobility as well as the road to realizing an individual’s fullest potential in life. In both China and Chinese diasporic communities around the world, education is of utmost importance and is central to childrearing in the family. In this paper, we address one of the most serious resettlement issues that new Chinese immigrants face—children’s education. We examine how receiving contexts matter for parenting, what immigrant parents do to promote their children’s education, and what enables parenting strategies to yield expected outcomes. Our analysis is based mainly on data collected from face-to-face interviews and participant observations in Chinese immigrant communities in Los Angeles and New York in the United States and in Singapore. We find that, despite different contexts of reception, new Chinese immigrant parents hold similar views and expectations on children’s education, are equally concerned about achievement outcomes, and tend to adopt overbearing parenting strategies. We also find that, while the Chinese way of parenting is severely contested in the processes of migration and adaptation, the success in promoting children’s educational excellence involves not only the right set of culturally specific strategies but also tangible support from host-society institutions and familial and ethnic social networks. We discuss implications and unintended consequences of overbearing parenting.

scholarly journals One year later: A case study examining a community hospital’s administrative response to a debris flow

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Ann Gianola ◽  
Steven A. Fellows
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Debris Flow ◽  
First Responders ◽  
Travel Agency ◽  
Trauma Patients ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Seeking Safety ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
One Year

Santa Barbara, California was first impacted by the Thomas Fire in December 2017 only to be devastated by the Montecito Debris Flow less than two weeks later. Cottage Health, a not-for-profit health system that provides advanced tertiary and quaternary medical care for patients throughout the Central Coast of California, was at the forefront of first responders to those directly impacted by the debris flow. Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (“SBCH”) (located 6 miles from the flow) treated 18 trauma patients, two first-responders, and 1 additional emergency patient later in the day, while Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital (“GVCH”) (located 12 miles from the flow) treated seven patients. Flooding and debris from the storm forced the closure of Highway 101 in both directions north and south for thirteen days. Highway 101 is the only major thoroughfare from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles and forced Cottage Health to implement an internal “travel agency,” in order to support Cottage Health clinicians to get to and from the two hospitals. The internal “travel agency” arranged transportation via planes, boats, vans and trains. In addition, the agency arranged accommodations utilizing local hotels, and an empty patient care unit in GVCH. Employees and board members opened up their homes to respond to more than 4,000 transportation and 900 overnight accommodation requests. Immediately following the disaster, licensed Cottage Health clinicians implemented a How We Heal: Trauma and Anxiety Support Group series to serve all Santa Barbara residents. The series is composed of How We Heal: Process Group, How We Heal: Skill Building/Seeking Safety Group and How We Heal: Survivor Group and one year later, continues to serve the community.

scholarly journals Productive myopia: Racialized organizations and edtech

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 205395172110504
Author(s):  
Roderic Crooks
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Data Team ◽  
Racial Projects ◽  
Charter Management Organization

This paper reports on a two-year, field-based study set in a charter management organization (CMO-LAX), a not-for-profit educational organization that operates 18 public schools exclusively in the Black and Latinx communities of South and East Los Angeles. At CMO-LAX, the nine-member Data Team pursues the organization's avowed mission of making public schools data-driven, primarily through the aggregation, analysis, and visualization of digital data derived from quotidian educational activities. This paper draws on the theory of racialized organizations to characterize aspects of data-driven management of public education as practiced by CMO-LAX. I explore two examples of how CMO-LAX shapes data to support racial projects: the reconstruction of the figure of chronic truants and the incorporation of this figure in a calculative regime of student accomplishment. Organizational uses of data support a strategy I call productive myopia, a way of pursuing racial projects via seemingly independent, objective quantifications. This strategy allows the organization to claim to mitigate racial projects and, simultaneously, to accommodate them. This paper concludes by arguing for approaches to research and practice that center racial projects, particularly when data-intensive tools and platforms are incorporated into the provision of public goods and services such as education.

Hybrid Problem Solving

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-252
Author(s):  
Paul Lichterman
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Civic Action ◽  
South Los Angeles ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Community Benefits ◽  
Real Estate Developer ◽  
Close Juxtaposition ◽  
The Will ◽  
Community Benefits Agreement

This chapter evaluates how the close juxtaposition of civic and noncivic in hybrid civic action provides better ways to discern whether or not, and how, nonprofits express the will of people in their immediate locale, and whether or not they pose an effective alternative to governmental action, as some commentators argue. All that should help clarify how civic action really works. The chapter focuses mostly on a locally prominent and successful, nonprofit affordable housing developer, Housing Solutions for Los Angeles (HSLA). It then compares HSLA briefly with efforts by a Tenants of South Los Angeles (ISLA) committee to administer the housing provisions of the community benefits agreement (CBA) that ISLA's campaign won from the Manchester apartments developer. This was a different kind of hybrid. ISLA's affordable housing work for the community ultimately was both financed and constrained by a big, for-profit real estate developer — the Manchester property owner.

scholarly journals Assessing Cancer Beliefs in a Chinese Immigrant Community

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (5_suppl) ◽  
pp. 22-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evaon Wong-Kim ◽  
Angela Sun ◽  
Michael C. Demattos
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Cancer Beliefs
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