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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting. and marched to Chinatown on March 12, 2021. When they look back on that day, many remember feeling very alone. schools in recent years. 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. Trejo’s own mixed ancestry inspired him to pursue this topic. A new study finds that most immigrant groups meet or surpass average U.S. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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

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People Are Not Peas—Why Genetics Education Needs an Overhaul

Sapiens

From the basic genetics taught in K12 schools to university courses, biology curricula desperately need an overhaul. Across time, past humans frequently migrated , mated with, or displaced people they encountered in other regions—resulting in a tangled tree of human ancestry. This distinction may seem like splitting hairs.

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Genealogy course takes high schoolers deep into their family histories

The Hechinger Report

Over the course of the semester-long class, students research their own family histories, tracing one line back as far as they can through birth, death and marriage records, Census records, and church records, primarily. Brunelle hopes to broach more difficult conversations about race and ancestry in future years.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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The Fulani Enigma: Unraveling the Deep Genetic History of Africa’s Legendary Pastoralists

Anthropology.net

published in The American Journal of Human Genetics 1 , has provided fresh insights into the complex origins of the Fulani, tracing their ancestry back to an ancient, lost world—the Green Sahara. B) Average values of the seven components estimated on ADMIXTURE results at K = 7 for all studied Fulani populations. (C)

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