Sentences with phrase «making ethnic studies»

As a 6th grade Maker Educator at Epic Charter Academy in the heart of Oakland's Fruitvale district, I'm lucky to be part of a Design and Engineering department that values honoring those past and present legacies: explicitly making Ethnic Studies a pillar through which we create curriculum.

The report includes what some districts are doing to close the achievement gap for Latino students and cited LA Unified as an example of how using a «culturally inclusive curriculum» by making ethnic studies a graduation requirement helps engage Latino students.

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Make fun of the employment prospects of gender - and ethnic - studies students.

In his so - called «Choices and Chances» workshops, Richards helps students make informed decisions about what they want to study and why, regardless of their ethnic or social backgrounds.

These studies established the existence of stereotype threat and provided evidence that stereotypes suggesting poor performance, when made salient in a context involving the stereotypical ability, can disrupt performance, produce doubt about one's abilities, and cause an individual to disidentify with one's ethnic group.

Nine of those studies found that school choice provided a more integrated classroom experience, one found no visible difference, and no empirical study had ever found that a school choice program made ethnic segregation worse.

Although efforts have been made to specifically improve graduation rates among subgroups that regularly have lower achievement, including English learners, those in the foster care system or low - income youth, the American Institutes» study released last week suggests districts should also target subgroups within racial and ethnic subgroups where significant cultural variety is common.

Jose Lara of Ethnic Studies Now is fighting for the classes throughout the state and said seven districts have already taken the lead in making the courses a graduation requirement.

An examination of Piper's sophisticated work and writing would make a challenging graduate seminar for students of art history or ethnic / women's studies.»

Several studies have underlined the importance of finding ways to retain ethnic minorities and immigrants and to make the parenting programmes more attractive and effective.11 42 — 44 The group leaders were bilingual and were familiar with both Somali and Swedish cultures, which were strengths as nothing was «lost in translation».