BY: JOHN FENSTERWALD, EDSource – MARCH 17, 2021 On Thursday, the State Board of Education will adopt an Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum for high schools that is four years, four drafts, three public vetting periods and 100,000 comments in the making. Had they more time and an endless reservoir of ...

By: Kelly Field, Chronicle of Higher-Education – March 16, 2021 Francisco Paulino almost didn’t make it to college last fall. Three months before the start of his freshman year, Paulino contracted Covid-19. The coronavirus attacked his nerves, aggravating the symptoms of his carpal-tunnel syndrome. For weeks, he couldn’t move his ...

By: EFE Agency – March 12, 2021 (originally published in Spanish) More than 200 young "dreamers" anxiously await the approval of a special permit to travel to Mexico in order to complete an academic program, visit relatives they have not seen for years and reconnect with their roots. Divided into ...

By Sherrilyn Ifill, SMITHSONIANMAG.COM – MARCH 10, 2021 To cover the 400 years of Black America, we divided Four Hundred Souls into ten sections, each covering 40 years. The following essay from Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, covers the five-year-span from 1949 to 1954. ...

Por: Redacción , La Opinión – 03 de Marzo 2021 La Comisión México – Estados Unidos para el Intercambio Educativo y Cultural (Comexus), publicó una convocatoria para maestros mexicanos de inglés con dominio del español, para vivir temporalmente en una universidad estadounidense. Los maestros que sean seleccionados vivirán en una ...

By HUNTER LEE, Press Telegram – March 2, 2021 Long Beach City College’s vice president of Student Services, Mike Muñoz, will become the new interim superintendent-president in a couple of weeks — and he will likely hold the position until the middle of next year. The Long Beach Community College ...

By: Mikayla Schwartz , Daily49er – Feb. 8, 2021 President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s new immigration proposal would provide recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program the opportunity to receive green cards following a three-year pathway to citizenship, if passed by Congress. The new proposal includes a pathway for ...

By: Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed – January 21, 2021 President Biden on his first day in office Wednesday proposed an immigration bill that features a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and makes Dreamers -- young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children -- immediately eligible ...

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Update 2/4/2021: As of Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 12:00 AM PST, The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) has closed the application period for our Summer 2021 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program. The CMSC has reached the number of applicants we are able to review and consider, and will ...

By Nora McGreevy, SMITHSONIANMAG.COM – JANUARY 13, 2021 One of the oldest art schools in the country is currently in dire straits. Last year, the 150-year-old San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) laid off dozens of employees and edged toward the brink of permanent shutdown. That fall, the University of California’s ...