The Supreme Court has dismantled affirmative action for the foreseeable future. What exactly is affirmative action? What can we learn from its history and its impact on education? Affirmative action is the imperfect solution for education’s issues with diversity and inclusion, revealing the cracks in our nation’s academic institutions.
Ethnoburbs, a multi-ethnic suburban area, have long been talked about positively as a cultural hub and safe haven for ethnic minorities. Despite the positives it brings to different communities, it poses problems of complacency and ignorance when taken for granted.
“Culturally responsive education” and “critical race theory” became buzzwords in 2020 due to inequalities that the pandemic and racial tensions in the U.S presented. Schools across the country started to rapidly change their curriculum to be more inclusive. While this shift was necessary to mitigate the racial tensions…
I slept on every ride to Chinese school, and every ride back. It was part of a weekly routine, a well-remembered Saturday morning sequence. Tumbling into the car and watching the rolling hills pass the window, the burnt-black trees on the roadside after the wildfires. Drifting in and…
In 1968, Har Gobind Khorana was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work in protein synthesis and genetics [1]. Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 for their work on the violation of the parity law.…