The 31st charter school to enter professional development and achievement-based pay system

Minnesota Commissioner of Education Alice Seagren announced [Dec. 7] that Yinghua Academy will implement Minnesota’s nation-leading Q Comp performance and professional pay program. The school will receive US$59,280 in total revenue for the 2009-10 school year for implementation.

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

National Angel Island Day, 2010

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

One hundred years ago, the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay opened for the first time, and an important chapter of the American narrative began. It would be written by those who walked through the station's doors over the next three decades. From the cities, villages, and farms of their birth, they journeyed across the Pacific, seeking better lives for themselves and their children. Many arrived at Angel Island, weary but hopeful, only to be unjustly confined for months or, in some cases, years. As we remember their struggle, we honor all who have been drawn to America by dreams of limitless opportunity.

OPINION: Dance Review

By Hua Chen
 
The Twin Cities Chinese Dance Center (TCCDC) has always been my favorite art institute. However, since the previous artistic director, Qiang Yang, left Minnesota, I haven’t heard much about TCCDC’s activities. That’s why I was so excited to learn that TCCDC just invited their new artistic director from China. I drove 50 minutes to Eden Prairie to see their first show on Dec. 19th.

By Huanru Zhang, TCCDC Artistic Director

 
China is a multi-cultural country, with 56 different ethnicities.  Each of these ethnicities has their own folk culture and dances.  Chinese classical dance incorporates dance elements from these ethnic dances, Chinese operas, Chinese martial art forms and folk operas.  Over time these have merged, forming the unique system that we call Chinese classical dance today.   It has been refined, redeveloped and rejuvenated over thousands of years.

The Summer Palace received more than 2,000 cultural relics from the late Qing Dynasty on [Jan. 11], its first non-governmental donation. Beijing Royal Garden and Art Creative Industry said most of the pieces were from auctions, while a small number were from private collections.

A rare, 400-year-old map that displays China at the center of the world will be on exhibit at the Library of Congress from Jan. 12 to April 10, before it heads to its intended home at the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota. The map is on loan from the James Ford Bell Trust.