Category: Ethnic Studies
EdSource’s Best of 2025: Our favorite Education Beat podcast episodes
Credits: Zaidee Stavely/EdSource; Lasherica Thornton/EdSource; GoFundMe; Palo Alto Unified; and Becca Esquivel Makris. EdSource’s “Education Beat” podcast gets to the […]
December 30, 2025
What is happening to ethnic studies in California?
In the 2023-24 school year in Fresno, Duncan Poly High School students in Gabriel Perez’s ethnic studies class discussed how […]
October 21, 2025
I felt like a fake Filipino until my ethnic studies courses helped me reconnect with my roots
Jenna Ramiscal, San Diego State student. Christie Yeung I have always felt like an impostor in the Filipino community. At […]
August 26, 2025
As ethnic studies mandate withers, it’s clear state leaders misled districts
Credit: Alison Yin / EdSource Last week, the California Legislature let its widely heralded 2021 high school ethnic studies bill, […]
July 8, 2025
California leaders must keep their promise by funding ethnic studies
Credit: Alison Yin / EdSource Decades of institutionalized racism and inadequate funding have left California with a racial achievement gap […]
April 22, 2025
Ethnic studies standards can’t save California’s deeply flawed mandate
Alison Yin / EdSource Members of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus recently introduced a new bill (AB 1468) to address […]
April 22, 2025
Fresno Unified teachers say district is slow-walking ethnic studies launch
In the 2023-24 school year in Fresno, Duncan Poly High School students in Gabriel Perez’s ethnic studies class discussed how […]
February 6, 2025
Anatomy of a divided California school board’s vote on ethnic studies
Ariane Tuomy, a social studies teacher at Palo Alto Unified’s Gunn High School, responds to school board members’ questions at […]
January 27, 2025
‘Liberated’ ethnic studies courses challenged amid allegations of antisemitism
Santa Ana Unified board President Carolyn Torres, right, and board member Rigo Rodriguez speak at the board meeting on August […]
August 30, 2024