The article was updated on Aug. 1 to include comments from the co-chair of the committee of ethnic studies educators who wrote most of the first draft in 2019. The California Department of Education ...
This quote is scribbled in the margins of my notes on a lecture in Pablo Gonzalez’s Chicano 50 class. For me, these words echoed particularly true given the conversations I had been having about ...
A brewing controversy has erupted over what kind of ethnic studies school districts should adopt. Should it be inclusive or “liberated”? This debate comes as California school districts are readying ...
Students head to class on the first day of school at Palo Alto High School on August 14, 2024. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. Since 2021, California schools have grappled with creating a new ethnic ...
An ethnic studies class focuses on racism at John O’Connell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 22, 2018. Josh Edelson Los Angeles Times via TNS Jesus Castillo, a senior at Roosevelt High, said he ...
A ninth-grade ethnic studies class has a remarkably prolonged and strong positive impact on students, increasing their overall engagement in school, probability of graduating, and likelihood of ...
Dong-Ping Wong, the owner of Food New York, said that in Chinatown he can “not feel foreign” and that he could “disappear.” Similarly, filmmaker Connor Sen Warnick said that he felt included in ...
The demands of Iran’s ethnic minorities differ from many of those in Tehran, and they have reason to fear the return of the ...
Discuss a recent instance of police brutality in your community. Read op-eds arguing for and against legal status for unauthorized immigrants. Compare and contrast border conditions in the Palestinian ...