In her debut novel, "She Weeps Each Time You're Born," the Saigon-born poet guides us through the history of modern Vietnam with a deft mix of folklore, magical realism and stories of struggle and hardship that feel yanked right out of history.
Pantheon: 288 pp., $24.95

This film documents a little-known chapter in African, Asian and French colonial history and the personal story of Christophe, a Beninese-Vietnamese orphan that returns to Vietnam to look for his long-lost mother.
Between 1946 and 1954, more than 60,000 African soldiers were enlisted by France to fight the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. Pitted against one another by circumstances, African and Vietnamese fighters came into contact, and a number of African soldiers married Vietnamese women. Out of these unions, numerous mixed-race children were born.
Director Idrissou MORA-KPAI is an independent documentary filmmaker and producer who graduated from Konrad Wolf University of Film and Television Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany.

For more than half a century, “To Kill a Mockingbird” has stood apart as a singular American literary masterpiece, a perennial best seller that has provoked countless classroom discussions about racial and social injustice. It brought instant and overwhelming fame to its enigmatic author, Harper Lee, who soon retreated from the spotlight to her native Monroeville, Ala. She never published another book, leaving her millions of fans yearning for more.
Now, at age 88, Ms. Lee has revealed that she wrote another novel after all — a sequel of sorts to “To Kill a Mockingbird,” featuring an aging Atticus Finch and his grown daughter, Scout.

As the war in Vietnam recedes deeper into history, replaced in the American consciousness by more recent conflicts in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, its lessons also seem to fade. That amnesia is what the film director and producer Rory Kennedy is trying to counteract in “Last Days in Vietnam,” one of five nominees for the Oscar for best feature-length documentary.

TT - Một khảo sát mới nhất của Bộ GD-ĐT cho thấy có tới 93,57% học sinh, sinh viên được hỏi gặp phải những vướng mắc cần được chia sẻ trong học tập và đời sống hằng ngày.

Nghiên cứu trên 1.600 học sinh cấp 3 tại Việt Nam, chú trọng vào các đặc điểm của gánh nặng học thêm, mối liên quan giữa học thêm - áp lực học tập, triệu chứng trầm cảm và lo lắng, đã cảnh báo tình trạng rối loạn sức khỏe tâm thần ở học sinh.

(GDVN) - Cung Lỗ Giang hay còn gọi là cung Kiến Xương là một trong những hành cung lớn được nhà Trần cho xây dựng trên đất phát tích Long Hưng (nay thuộcThái Bình).
Dựa trên kết quả điều tra khảo sát, tháng 8 năm 2014, Trung tâm Nghiên cứu Kinh thành (Viện Hàn lâm Khoa học xã hội Việt Nam) đã phối hợp với Bảo tàng tỉnh Thái Bình xây dựng một chương trình nghiên cứu tìm hiểu về hành cung Lỗ Giang tại xã Hồng Minh, huyện Hưng Hà (Thái Bình). Và, sau khi được phép của Sở Văn hóa, Thể thao và Du lịch tỉnh Thái Bình và Bộ Văn hóa Thể thao và Du lịch (Quyết định số 3897/QĐ-VHTTD ngày 21/11/2014), Bảo tàng Thái Bình và Trung tâm Nghiên cứu Kinh thành đã tiến hành khai quật khảo cổ học di tích hành cung Lỗ Giang.

Fewer children are reading books frequently for fun, according to a new report released Thursday by Scholastic, the children's book publisher.
In a 2014 survey of just over 1,000 children ages 6 to 17, only 31 percent said they read a book for fun almost daily, down from 37 percent four years ago.
The finding about reading aloud to children long after toddlerhood may come as a surprise to some parents who read books to children at bedtime when they were very young but then tapered off. Last summer, the American Academy of Pediatrics announced a new policy recommending that all parents read to their children from birth.

The Southern Education Foundation reports that 51 percent of students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade in the 2012-2013 school year were eligible for the federal program that provides free and reduced-price lunches. The lunch program is a rough proxy for poverty, but the explosion in the number of needy children in the nation's public classrooms is a recent phenomenon that has been gaining attention among educators, public officials and researchers.

There are enormous inequalities in education in the United States. A child born into a poor family has only a 9 percent chance of getting a college degree, but the odds are 54 percent for a child in a high-income family. These gaps open early, with poor children less prepared than their kindergarten classmates.
Researchers have been quietly finding small, effective ways to improve education. They have identified behavioral "nudges" that prod students and their families to take small steps that can make big differences in learning. These measures are cheap, so schools or nonprofits could use them immediately.