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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

ED Surge

describes in her 2015 book “The Making of Asian America: A History”[iii] that the model minority stereotype has roots in World War II and the Cold War, then was proliferated in the 1980s in newspapers and magazines. Does this mean that Florida is safe for Asian folks but not for Black and queer folks?

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Put more gender studies in schools’ sex ed courses

The Hechinger Report

Eight transgender people have died this year, and 22 transgender people died last year in the United States because of violence , according to the Human Rights Campaign. It was the most ever recorded, according to the advocacy group. The 2015 call from a number of national groups proposes just that.