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Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education — with one big exception

The Hechinger Report

In this 2017 photo, students present their history projects at a New York City high school for recent immigrants and refugees. The key appears to be education because higher educational attainment is associated with economic success, social status, better health, family stability, and life opportunities. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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Doctors Are Taught to Lie About Race

Sapiens

By checking “Patient’s Race,” we health care providers pretend to know something that we cannot possibly know: the patient’s ancestry and associated medical risk. The very notion that one could segregate people into groups that roughly approximate ancestry assumes those ancestral groups have remained separate throughout history.

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