ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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.

K-12 143

K-12 Ancestry Education Geography 143

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

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.

Education 100

Education Ancestry Heritage Economics 100

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

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. After our country’s history of segregation, society has finally bought into the idea that diversity is better, but for the wrong reasons.

Ancestry 88

Ancestry Economics High School Research 88

Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Ancestry 143

Ancestry Anthropology Humanities Museum 143

Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Across time, past humans frequently migrated , mated with, or displaced people they encountered in other regions—resulting in a tangled tree of human ancestry. At the American Museum of Natural History, a 2001 digital representation of the human genome presents color coding for the four chemical components of DNA.

Ancestry 145

Ancestry Education Humanities K-12 145

Political Science Now

JANUARY 10, 2025

.” In 2019, The New York Times Magazine launched The 1619 Project , a collaborative historiographic work that sought to recenter the role of slavery and anti-Black racism in the American founding and the countrys subsequent history. Attending to the multiple origins of race helps us better understand the concepts complex history.

Political Science 63

Political Science Ancestry History Humanities 63