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MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. Mysa’s curriculum relies on Common Core, the same national standards as public schools, Fiske says. And she isn’t the only one with that worry.

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JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Whose Technology Gets Celebrated?

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

As an English language learner in southern New England, she navigated linguistic and cultural barriers to build a life that nurtured her family and sustained her Portuguese heritage. Her ability to embrace a new country while honoring her roots shaped not only her life but the lives of those around her.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

They appreciated seeing another Asian educator receive national recognition in a profession where only 2.1% of public school educators are of Asian descent. As a teacher in Hawaiʻi, I am keenly aware and reminded of my identity as a "local" teacher, one whose family heritage traces back generations in the same community.

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JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

My grandparents knew education was the pathway out of low wages and difficult working conditions, hence why my grandfather decided to work as a janitor at a public school to land a steady job. I’ve come to realize there is an unspoken pride in our family that is rooted in the Latine experience of the American Dream.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. 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.

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