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

The Hechinger Report

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. It meant helping my students craft elegant poetry infused with messages of social justice as their spoken word poetry coach. I am used to standing out.

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

The Hechinger Report

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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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

The third-generation Japanese American congresswoman was a trailblazer who advocated for women’s rights, civil rights, education, and social justice. Army’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a group of soldiers of Japanese ancestry, during World War II. Inouye served in the U.S. He lost his right arm in the war.