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
Last week, the California Legislature let its widely heralded 2021 high school ethnic studies bill, AB 101, silently lapse after […]
July 8, 2025
California leaders must keep their promise by funding ethnic studies
Decades of institutionalized racism and inadequate funding have left California with a racial achievement gap in its schools. All of […]
April 22, 2025
Ethnic studies standards can’t save California’s deeply flawed mandate
Members of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus recently introduced a new bill (AB 1468) to address concerns that the state’s […]
April 22, 2025
Fresno Unified teachers say district is slow-walking ethnic studies launch
In October 2017, Fresno Unified teacher Lauren Beal proposed an ethnic studies class at Edison High because she saw “a […]
February 6, 2025