If you are driving east on Florin Road toward Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, you will pass under a pedestrian bridge that has a message permanently affixed to it: “If you dream it, you can do it.”
When Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard in 2014 over its race-conscious admissions policies, only one member of the organization was described in detail, a young man who, according to the lawsuit, deserves a seat at the university. He is the son of Chinese immigrants, attended one of the nation’s top high schools, was captain of the tennis team and got a perfect score on the ACT.
As a remedy, Students for Fair Admissions wants the court to declare Harvard’s admissions practices unconstitutional. But it goes further: It wants an injunction that would bar Harvard admissions officers from learning the race of applicants — a prohibition that might force students to scrub any mention of their race in their applications. If the case advances through the courts, it could have wider implications.
My dad shared a cramped home with some assortment of his seven siblings and other Filipino families or distant relatives who were down on their luck. His father worked as a janitor while he flipped burgers, sometimes sneaking food for his mother and younger siblings. When he started at Burbank High in the late 1960s, the country was roiled with racial tension that spilled over into the school’s hallways.
Asian Americans are now the most economically divided racial group in the country, with the wealthiest 10 percent earning more than 10 times the amount of the poorest 10 percent. Mai Xi Lee, the director of social-emotional learning for the Sacramento City Unified School District, remembers the day she left Laos. She was 5, and her mother slaughtered a chicken and gave her the prized drumstick. Then, her mother told her to pack.
He found support for his crusade among well-educated and wealthy Chinese Americans in places like Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay area, people who had grown suspicious when their high-achieving children were rejected from top-flight schools. They spread the word of their fight through WeChat, a Chinese messaging program.
KAMALAMODE I had a blood draw from a lab person, Hmong, whose owes a mountain of debt from a private college. She could have received the same training at a quarter the price at a community college. This is tearing her marriage apart.
My thoughts are because the ados low-income population is so vast and continues to grow. As you maybe aware, the increase numbers within it he ados low-income demographics is due to neglect not lack of potential in that community.
forgotten? more like ignored. ignored because we don't fit the stereotype of most Asians, and it doesn't happen only in higher ed - it starts in your low income household and the poor public school system you attend starting with elementary school. not much changes after that.
They aren't forgotten. The 'problem' is they are no longer considered a 'minority' and fall prey to things like the systemic discrimination of affirmative action. They are a symptom of a system that no longer values equality, but ironically was subverted in the name of equality
Lies and more fakenarrative s