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Should we screen kids’ genes to ‘predict’ how successful they’ll be in school?

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.

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Ancestry Social Justice Research Tutoring

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

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

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. One of the most dramatic came in high school after the administration told me I couldn’t wear an Afro because it was a “fad.” I am used to standing out.

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K-12 Charter School Ancestry Education

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Should we screen kids’ genes to ‘predict’ how successful they’ll be in school?

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

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