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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting. and marched to Chinatown on March 12, 2021. When they look back on that day, many remember feeling very alone. schools in recent years. on March 21, 2021.

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Norway law decrees: Let childhood be childhood

The Hechinger Report

million people , about 82 percent of whom are of Norwegian ancestry, across a space roughly the size of Montana. Nature and outdoor play are staples of Norwegian culture. In some states, as many as 12 2-year-olds are assigned to one teacher, who is subject to far fewer training requirements than a peer in Norway.

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Genealogy course takes high schoolers deep into their family histories

The Hechinger Report

Sometimes kids found unexpected ancestries – like one white student who found an ancestor labelled “mulatto” on an old Census. Brunelle hopes to broach more difficult conversations about race and ancestry in future years. Especially where our school is not culturally diverse, within our genealogies, we are,” Brunelle said.

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TEACHER VOICE: ‘Which police officer will see me not as an educator or a scientist, but as a suspect?’

The Hechinger Report

CASABLANCA, Morocco — I grew up with a Black father of Puerto Rican and Caribbean ancestry and a white mother, in an overwhelmingly white area of Western New York. universities, they often experience culture shock. “More than half of K-12 students in the United States are people of color, yet only about one fifth of teachers are.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. Army’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a group of soldiers of Japanese ancestry, during World War II.

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The Fulani Enigma: Unraveling the Deep Genetic History of Africa’s Legendary Pastoralists

Anthropology.net

How did their nomadic culture evolve? published in The American Journal of Human Genetics 1 , has provided fresh insights into the complex origins of the Fulani, tracing their ancestry back to an ancient, lost world—the Green Sahara. Where did they come from? Now, a groundbreaking genetic study by Fortes-Lima et al.,

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