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News Articles

Greetings to all of our fellow educators.  We are publishing this sample listing of news articles, from either media outlets or educational sources that we believe are relevant to what we espouse.  It is our hope to always act as a resource to our constituents.  Please review the following sample, and as always, please give us back your feedback so that we can serve you better.

 

The Executive Board of APACE

I’m almost always the first Asian American teacher my students have had. That’s a problem

 

by Mary Hara

My first homeroom class as a seventh-grade teacher was at Intermediate School 184, in what was once District 7 in the New York City Public Schools. My joyful, smart, creative students were Puerto Rican, Dominican....

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https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2023/08/22/representation-immigrants-asian-american-teachers-may-hara

How My Voice As an Asian American Teacher Goes Unheard — and Why I Can’t Speak Up

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by Michael Paul Ida

“Okay! Let’s wrap up our conversations and get back together!”

As the small group discussion portion of the PD session I was attending ended, an overwhelming feeling of relief came over me. Had I stayed in the session any longer, I might’ve had to slip out of the meeting room and find a hidden spot to cry; not tears of joy, per se, but frustration — frustration I often feel when  ....

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https://www.edsurge.com/news/2024-01-31-how-my-voice-as-an-asian-american-teacher-goes-unheard-and-why-i-can-t-speak-up

How the Invisible Tax of Being an Educator of Color Pushed Me Out of the Classroom
By Sebastián R. Chávez 

During my first years of teaching, I decided that no matter how difficult life got, both in and out of the classroom, I would never leave my class in the middle of the year.

For years, my co-teachers would come and go from our grade level, and all I felt was adversity towards them: I mean, ....

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https://www.edsurge.com/news/2024-03-08-how-the-invisible-tax-of-being-an-educator-of-color-pushed-me-out-of-the-classroom

Teacher Diversity in Long Island Public Schools
Larry Mangino, and Lawrence Levy

The representation of Asian American teachers in schools is a unique asset in promoting diversity and advocating for social justice. However, they also face various barriers that negatively affect their work experiences. The diverse nature of the Asian American population is likely to yield different assets and barriers among teachers from different ethnic groups ....

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https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1K8pLdjf6FhfvMs2-8GKhPI5lyCGLnOGS

Exploring Chinese and Korean American Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Cultural Identity as Assets and Barriers
JiayiWang 1,*, KeAysia Aiyanna Lana Jackson 2, Eui Kyung Kim 2 and Kevin Han 2

Even as the number of non-White students and residents on Long Island has surged over the past decade, the hiring of Black, Latinx and Asian teachers has failed to keep pace, leaving minority and White students alike with few, if any, diverse role models that an increasing body of research has identified as important for their success. For example, 61 percent of Long Island’s 642 public school buildings do not have a single Black teacher and 43 percent have no Latinx.....

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10740402/

What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

By Mi Aniefuna     Jun 2, 2023

As part of our Voices of Change research project, EdSurge Research talked to dozens of educators who identify as Asian or Asian American. These conversations occurred a year after the anti-Asian hate crimes in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2021, and two years after George Floyd’s murder sparked a wave of racial solidarity uprisings in 2020.

We often use catch-all acronyms and shorthand like “POC,” “BIPOC,” and “Black and brown people” to describe experiences of discrimination and oppression of people in the U.S. who are not white. But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. and in its schools....

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https://www.edsurge.com/news/2023-06-02-what-asian-american-educator-stories-reveal-about-racial-nuances-within-people-of-color

Isolated and Overburdened, Asian American Educators Struggle

By T.K. Lê

On April 15, 2020, high school teachers in the Newton Public Schools district near Boston were doing what K-12 teachers were doing across the country: They were teaching on Zoom. Moving classes online was a quick pivot with few standardized privacy protections. For one teacher of AP Chinese Language and Culture, that morning changed from confusing to horrifying ....

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https://www.edsurge.com/news/2023-01-16-isolated-and-overburdened-asian-american-educators-struggle

The movement to teach AAPI history in public schools is growing—here’s the impact, from educators to students

By Jennifer Liu

The students of Mike Bigelow’s first-grade class light up when they’re asked what they’ve learned about Asian American history and social studies this year.

Ayansh Grover, 7, says he observes Hindu culture and shared with his classmates how he celebrates holidays like Diwali and Holi.

Every Tuesday, the class practices saying “hello”....

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https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/11/the-movement-to-teach-aapi-history-in-public-schools-is-growing-heres-the-impact.html

Education Policies Need To Address the Unique Needs of Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities

The Asian American and the Pacific Islander communities in the United States are growing at a dramatic pace. Recent data from the 2020 census1 as well as a recent Pew Research Center analysis2 show that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are two of .....

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https://www.americanprogress.org/article/education-policies-need-to-address-the-unique-needs-of-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-communities/

Dear Educators, It Is Time to Fight for Asian America

By Wayne Au and Moé Yonamine

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Although the recent increase in anti-Asian attacks has been hard for all of us, the murderous killing spree in Atlanta has our families, our youth, and our communities spiraling. From a Japanese teacher in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District being assaulted by a man wielding a sock filled with rocks, to the robbery and killing of....

 

https://rethinkingschools.org/2021/03/23/dear-educators-it-is-time-to-fight-for-asian-america/

Empowering Asian Educators in the Time of Crisis

CLARA HANEUL YOON
Teachers College, Columbia University (USA)

September 2022

Published in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 21 (2): 57–88 [pdf]

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Abstract: In this article, I draw from my experience working as a Korean American music teacher in the US. I reflect on what it means to be Asian American and to bring Asian narratives to the forefront. I examine the distinct challenges of social justice in the context of Asians and Asian Americans’ lives—particularly through the lens of the “model minority.”

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http://act.maydaygroup.org/empowering-asian-educators-in-the-time-of-crisis/

How Do We Get — and Keep — More Asian American Male Teachers?
New York City initiative co founded by alum finishes first year trying to do just this

BY GIANNA CACCIATORE

 

In late 2020, when Tony DelaRosa, Ed.M.’18, got a call asking if he wanted to cofound New York City’s first affinity program for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) male teachers, he jumped at the opportunity. 

At the forefront of his mind was the marked increase in racism.......

 

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/21/08/how-do-we-get-and-keep-more-asian-american-male-teachers

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Asian Pacific American Council Of Educators

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