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

The Hechinger Report

But some researchers fear this gene screening work could be misapplied and used to further racist or eugenic thinking, even though race is a social, not a genetic, classification. There is also an enormous shortcoming in the datasets used for this research: Virtually all are built with DNA from people of European ancestry.

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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.