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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

This caustic combination of biased or incomplete information and a lack in public awareness very easily fuels damaging stereotypes of Asians as perpetually and dangerously foreign and “taking over” what are seen as limited resources, especially during times of social and economic instability and widening gaps in wealth and income inequality.

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

The Hechinger Report

The key appears to be education because higher educational attainment is associated with economic success, social status, better health, family stability, and life opportunities. Trejo’s own mixed ancestry inspired him to pursue this topic. Generally speaking, the more years in school and the more degrees earned, the better.

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New study finds that multiracial high schoolers show no test score gap with white students

The Hechinger Report

Almost half of multiracial students aged 15 to 18 report having black ancestry, and black-white combinations are the most frequent interracial origin in the age group. Join the conversation later on Andre Perry’s radio show, “Free College,” hosted Tuesdays on WBOK1230 in New Orleans at 3pm Central/4pm Eastern 504.260.9265.

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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. 1 among 41 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and European Union countries for conditions that support child well-being. Norway, a democracy with a figurehead monarchy, is home to about 5.5

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People Are Not Peas—Why Genetics Education Needs an Overhaul

Sapiens

Across time, past humans frequently migrated , mated with, or displaced people they encountered in other regions—resulting in a tangled tree of human ancestry. and other colonized lands, racism has influenced people’s access to nutritious food, education, economic opportunities, health care, safety, and more.

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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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Rethinking Racialization

Political Science Now

By proclaiming that any persons with Jewish ancestry were barred from the full privileges afforded to Christians, the document suggested that they possessed some Jewish essence that remained even after conversion. For this reason, for Salgado, sixteenth-century blood purity statutes should be understood as racial.