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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

ED Surge

Edward Gonzalez There has been some progress in the human-centered design movement, Raña says, where companies involve the end-users in a product's design — but she argues that the edtech landscape needs to do much more when it comes to designing for Latino and Black children. “And That is just and humanizing. You feel me?”

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4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians

Studies Weekly

Du Bois’ advocacy extended across the world through many Pan-African conferences and an appeal to the United Nations to recognize the suffering of Black Americans, according to the NAACP. He believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression.

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Why Healing Affinity Spaces Are Necessary for Black Women Educators

ED Surge

Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms. Africans were skilled laborers, mathematicians and astronomers.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

It is treated as this extra piece that is not a central part of education,” said Amanda Seewald, president-elect of the Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies, a legislative advocacy group. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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

ED Surge

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. We often use catch-all acronyms and shorthand like “POC,” “BIPOC,” and “Black and brown people” to describe experiences of discrimination and oppression of people in the U.S. who are not white.

Heritage 101
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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. Karen Kong, 16, has unwavering pride in her Chinese American heritage, rooted in her sense of family and honor.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

What followed were a series of ultimate insider jobs that culminated with heading the county’s Department of Health and Human Services from 1988 to 1991 and then serving as Milwaukee’s school superintendent from 1991 to 1995. I knew that to some I would be seen as ‘a sellout,’ ” Fuller writes in his memoir, “No Struggle, No Progress.”.