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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

In upstate New York, a high school English teacher said, “I remember driving into school not wanting to go in, being really sad and just crying. I thought to myself, ‘I don't have anyone that I could talk to in my entire school that has any idea about what's going on right now.’” on March 21, 2021.

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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. That exceeds the 13.8

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

The Hechinger Report

So it’s fuzzy figuring out exactly what privileges I benefit from,” explained Sierra Fang, a rising senior in an Oakland high school, to KQED Youth Radio on a segment about mixed-race privilege. Fang’s father is white and her mother is Chinese; she attends a white school and her family is middle class. I’m not white.

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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

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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. Standard U.S.

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