ED Surge
DECEMBER 12, 2022
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.
ED Surge
JANUARY 11, 2023
While 21% of teachers in Hawai’i are Japanese, only 10% have Native Hawaiian ancestry. Teachers of Color After student teaching on the US continent in a high school, I felt so isolated as the only Asian adult on campus. This statistic is exacerbated by an inverse representation of students — 23% Native Hawaiian and 9% Japanese.
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ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Perhaps it is because I am Mexican American and colonization is a part of my ancestry. I taught the same topic to high school students in my women’s studies class 20 years later. I have always felt connected to Indigenous peoples.
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. years of education, on average, which is the equivalent of a high school diploma plus nearly two and a half years of college. Trejo’s own mixed ancestry inspired him to pursue this topic.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 14, 2020
For now, the science is almost entirely based on data collected from people with European ancestry, which limits the conclusions that can be drawn from it, so researchers feel that they’ve at least temporarily sidestepped the issue. Related: College graduation may be partly determined by your genes, genome study of siblings finds.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 24, 2017
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.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 14, 2024
million people , about 82 percent of whom are of Norwegian ancestry, across a space roughly the size of Montana. Nearly 86 percent of Norwegians graduate from high school, and 55 percent earn a college degree. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report To be sure, there are important contexts behind each country’s approach.
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