I live in Casa Grande, Arizona. Mexican-american myself and i'm a senior in high school. It makes me sad that our community is mostly mexican american but our history is irrelevant in school and everyone is clueless about our history. I've been living here my whole life and our culture is stereotyped and looked at as "anti american". Our school board is a mess and it's obvious they don't care about students. It's sickening that they want us learning a certain way. My main question is why is america scared of diversity? Especially in a land where the school is a majority of hispanic students.
Because, the purpose of ethnic studies is a Marxist based school of thought to use race based "studies" to legitimize the idea of oppression. Which is a farce.
@@albertogutierrez8653 it's not "specialty education." it's american history, one that is never taught and hushed, that everyone deserves to know about.
I had to watch this for an assignment. I am very glad that I did, it has opened my eyes by a lot and makes me proud to be Chicana! I just wish we had more ethnic studies here in the Midwest. But Ron did a great tedtalk! I need more of his content.
Greatest educator to take part in my education. His classes were very I intellectually stimulating. Always in support of our influential teacher who impact students' lives everyday. Go Panthers! Dub '14
This is what I stand for too. Want to get better at understanding and teaching ethnic studies. Currently in junior year at CSUF for Child and Adolescent Studies.
"...it's time..." I agree. The key is the infusion idea. Many or even most schools will not have or really need separate courses of study called "Ethnic Studies" or "Chicano Studies," etc. But EVERY school has U.S. History, World History, Geography, Literature, etc. classes. The goal in k-12 public schools to render the need for "Ethnic Studies" irrelevant because so much of the content and critical pedagogy has been infused into the "normal" curriculum that EVERY kid gets. That's when you know you've changed the institution. Right on to our gente, like Espiritu and many others, on the front lines in our schools.
@@aricars6263 Yes, it's Marxist race baiting, a go-nowhere degree where we can all blame capitalism and whites for historical woes and become radicalized because our degrees in ethnic studies isn't a marketable degree and thus we blame capitalism and the only job to get is teaching ethnic studies and radicalize more students in the future, and the process repeats itself.
I get the importance of empowering people to learn about other ethnic groups. It allows people to feel like they aren’t different and can phase out certain biases. However, I see the harm in telling students they are victims of society based on their race. Telling people that they are at a disadvantage is doing an injustice to young people. Someone could avoid trying as hard to achieve their goals if certain road blocks emerge, but that’s not always gonna be a race issue. A person who was taught the victim mentality, might try to see race in everything. That’s where it can be harmful and we need to keep that in mind. You’ll have a bunch of young people giving up when life gets tough. Possibly even try to overthrow governments that aren’t necessarily suppressing them. If you’re receiving that type of push back for it being harmful, intellectually, we should open ourselves to other perspectives.
Nope. See, there was never a time when white boys and girls were not allowed to go to school because of the color of their skin. There was not a time they were humiliated and made to feel less because of their native language. Coming from a Mexican American, brown girl, I KNOW I have faced disadvantages BECAUSE of the color of my skin. But NO I do NOT have a victim mentality. However, it was not until my sophomore year in college when I took an ethnic studies class that I was equipped with knowledge and support to understand that there were struggles I faced as a child because of the disparities in our education system. As a little girl I felt that it was me, it wasn't. It was others. The point is not to tell kids "poor you, you're a minority and are a victim," but, "hey look, here are books that represent you and your culture, here is history that is more representative of the class, here is language that explain why you as a minority may fee a certain why AND you are not alone." Ethnic Studies is so important in middle and high school because it we need to learn more about ourselves, and others should too.
Ethnic studies is anti nationalist tho it teaches about in more detail really the rthnic history of thr us and what parts of how thr united stats functions effects people of color @DeepestTempest
@@karimemendiola6882There were absolutely white children who were made fun of for speaking their native language. You realize English isn't the only language spoken by white people right? And there were absolutely white children prevented from going to school due to ancestry, economic status, gender, family, war, etc. If you wanna argue for including more historical events and trends into the textbooks, then argue that and be prepared to explain why it either justifies an increased workload in class or why it should replace other events and trends currently taught to make room for it. Additionally, pointing to historical acts of oppression is not valid excuse for pushing a curriculum that advocates grouping people into racial and ethnic categories and treating someone differently based on their category, rather than just treating them as an individual. I'm not accusing you of advocating for any of that, its entirely possible you're not, however I can personally confirm that certain "ethnic studies" do exactly that. If you believe in something, then argue it, and explain why you believe it. From a Guatemalan/Indigenous-American
my daughter sought Chicano studies class through a community college experience while in high school because her high school in LA didn't offer any such courses. She noticed how world history only dedicated a small section on the Aztec and or America's empires. As a result and love of Chicano Studies this fall she enrolled at UC Davis as a Chicano studies major. She is proud of her major regardless of the negative comments she receives from others who look at her major as less.
We can do anything we want with Ethnic Studies majors (just like any major)! I graduated from UC Berkeley last year and am finishing up my Masters in Education at UC Santa Cruz and still plan on applying to Law school in the future. Congrats to your daughter on getting into Davis! I am sure she will love it💙💛! External opinions don’t matter. She will do amazing!!!!
Graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Chicana/o studies & minor in human rights. Love the professors, faculty and community built around the chi department, definitely felt heard and seen.
ATAX Never had him as a teacher. But I am sure capitalism is based on slavery and oppression. One instance would be the disfranchisement of low wage workers with forced overtime and probed to policing.
I will continue to fight for my fellow brown people im 29 and never had an option to take ethnic studies. It really saddens me that learning about your culture can be banned. The lack of accountability is sad in our histories however sweeping our history under the rug will not work.
Lol! You don't see that they want you to self segregate? You go ahead and consider yourself a Chicana or African American while they consider themselves Americans. Get it. The subconscious programming: they belong here, you don't...not until you simply start referring to yourself as an American. Please don't be so gullible. Pride comes before destruction.
I started taking this class in college as a requirement and I’m on my second week of it and as of now all we’ve been learning about are terminology within ethnic studies and genders. For example, Latinx… We learned that part of the meaning of this word comes from Latino or Latina that don’t want to be assigned a gender they can remove the “a” or the “ O”to be gender neutral but then there’s latine because Latinx is “too much of an English word”. I’ve been so confused as to how this relates to ethnic studies. I want to learn about our ethnic history, not about genders?
I'm a child survivor of Armenian Massacre Baku Azerbaijan January 1990 and a granddaughter of a survivor of Armenian Genocide of 1915. A third generation of Armenians in the row to be persecuted. You want to do ethnic studies? Come to me, I'll tell you all about it. To this day victims of Armenian Massacre in Baku and Sumgait are not heart, the perpetrators are not jailed, the Azerbaijani government just finished stealing some more Armenian land and the world is blind and deaf getting together sipping coffee while discussing hypothetical issues. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 Christian Armenian Karabakh was forced under the Muslim Turkish rule!!!!!!!!! Where are you, world????
I know wat he says is true because my Uncle fought the State Department of Education in Arizona and had much thrown out because the European Americans and their Government deemed it as Anti Government,.......even though it was Native American studies,......We were told to learn the European's version of History,....that is a Total Disrespect to History and the Peoples of these Lands as well,........Hopefully and it looks like that All gonna Change soon for the Better,....!
I love erhnic studies. It is the root, the platform of of culture, language and who we are. I appreciate your presentation. I teach Spanish but feel the need to expound on ethnic background to the raices. Reflection on the semilla, the seed. You are a profound person with rich raices through your familia. Your abuela, you parents help bring forth this strength and I thank all of you. Siempre luchando. Bendiciones a todos. ❤🙏
If we didn't have mass migrations of non whites into the US because of the 1965 Immigration act, we wouldn't have to be coerced into appreciating ethnic studies. I do appreciate some books on the Aztecs or about slavery, but I prefer to choose what I read, and I don't want ethnic studies to be required reading for school kids..
"Coerced" into learning about the culture of people who were here long before your furthest ancestors? Do you consider yourself "coerced" when your children have to read about math, science, or white American History? Or are you just afraid someone's going to tell them the truth?
In that logic, there is no possible assigned reading without "coercion." You are proving Ron Espíritu's point: American schools are plagued by histories that exclude non-whites. Should we start calling that coercion? That's why Ron is giving this talk.
@@ventana100 I would love to read a book by an Ancient west African so I could learn about all the great history of ancient Africans. Any suggestions? The fact is, if they didn't write history, there is no history to read about. Got that?
" A growing body of research from education scholars shows that an Ethnic Studies pedagogy taught at the K-12 level exposes students to an empowering and academically rigorous curriculum that has proven positive academic and social benefits to students of all races. " There are only two studies, conducted on 9th graders, that show that ethnic studies improve grades, and they are poorly done and poorly analyze studies. They don't really prove anything. Even the authors say that the results cannot be extrapolated to other grades.
Here's just a taste of how wrong you are: Aronson and Laughter’s (2016, p. 197) meta analysis found that culturally responsive curriculum resulted in; Increases in student motivation (Bui & Fagan, 2013; Civil & Khan, 2001; Dimick, 2012; Ensign, 2003; Hill, 2012; Tate, 1995; Wortham & Contreras, 2002) Increases in student interest in content (Choi, 2013; Dimick, 2012; Ensign, 2003; Feger, 2006; Gutstein, 2003; Martell, 2013; Robbins, 2001) Increases in student ability to engage content area discourses (Civil & Khan, 2001; Gutstein, 2003; Martell, 2013) Increases in student perception of themselves as capable students (Robbins, 2001; Souryasack & Lee, 2007) Increases in confidence when taking standardized tests (Hubert, 2013) Dee and Penner (2017) found that Ethnic Studies participation in one study of 1,405 students over five years “increased student attendance (i.e., reduced unexcused absences) by 21 percentage points, cumulative GPA by 1.4 grade points, and credits earned by 23 credits” (p. 129). Cammarota (2007) explains that a social justice curriculum such as what is the basis for Ethnic Studies “links learning to the students’ lived experience so that he or she can realize how education can be a tool to transform one’s existence...When these social injustices are engaged and critiqued, students begin to clear intellectual and emotional space for education. They become further engaged in learning when their education becomes a means by which they may challenge oppressive forces within their social contexts. Doing well in school makes sense for disadvantaged youth when it is linked to promoting social justice for themselves, their peers, and their communities.” (p. 95). Here's the full citation for the meta analysis study: Aronson, B., & Laughter, J. (2016). The theory and practice of culturally relevant education: A synthesis of research across content areas. Review of Educational Research, 86(1), 163-206. That's just for "Ethnic Studies" - what would the results be for the rest of the "normal" curriculum and instructional methodology were to be updated to be culturally responsive??
I disagree when anyone starts condemning Columbus (the Native Americans were warring tribes-against-tribes before Columbus--for 1. territory 2. power 3. scarce resources); no one living in America today should condemn what had to be done in Columbus' times to make America what it is today. Not saying wars aren't terrible, but find one place on Earth where humans weren't fighting a war there . . .
If one is interested in learning about white american history, one can find such books at a local library. keep white history out of our required education
When man first warned his contemporaries that the world was round....he was met with opposition and disagreement by the ordinary people. When man first cautioned sanitation precautions to as-of-yet unaware village-folk....he was met with disbelief by ordinary people. When man first struggled to harness the power of electricity....he was met with astonished terrified expressions by ordinary people. ______________________________ Now its the 21st century. Today, the millions of misled ordinary people hold firm to relativism, nihilism, and cuckoldry.
NO This is the United States where ENGLISH IS OUR LANGUAGE SO LEARN IT - You want to learn 'ethnic studies' then go to college BUT UNTIL OUR KIDS START GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL KNOWING HOW TO READ, WRITE & SPEAK ENGLISH AS WELL AS KNOWING HOW TO COUNT CHANGE & basic studies - Study ethnic studies in college NOT grade & high school.
Anyone who calls ethnic studies racism is threatened by the knowledge we are spreading around the world about US History
Then just include it in a history book rather then forcing and economicly benefit from it
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@devilcwesker5980 Economically benefit? The speaker is literally a public high school teacher.
I live in Casa Grande, Arizona. Mexican-american myself and i'm a senior in high school. It makes me sad that our community is mostly mexican american but our history is irrelevant in school and everyone is clueless about our history. I've been living here my whole life and our culture is stereotyped and looked at as "anti american". Our school board is a mess and it's obvious they don't care about students. It's sickening that they want us learning a certain way. My main question is why is america scared of diversity? Especially in a land where the school is a majority of hispanic students.
Because, the purpose of ethnic studies is a Marxist based school of thought to use race based "studies" to legitimize the idea of oppression. Which is a farce.
midnight marauder Why should Americans pay for specialty education. That is your business not the public charge.
@@albertogutierrez8653 it's not "specialty education." it's american history, one that is never taught and hushed, that everyone deserves to know about.
I had to watch this for an assignment. I am very glad that I did, it has opened my eyes by a lot and makes me proud to be Chicana! I just wish we had more ethnic studies here in the Midwest. But Ron did a great tedtalk! I need more of his content.
Greatest educator to take part in my education. His classes were very I intellectually stimulating. Always in support of our influential teacher who impact students' lives everyday. Go Panthers! Dub '14
This is what I stand for too. Want to get better at understanding and teaching ethnic studies. Currently in junior year at CSUF for Child and Adolescent Studies.
This is my bosses nephew! And this talk is amazing. I'm surprised I didn't find it through my boss telling me lol
My name is Alexander Delgado. I learned that ethnic studies are important it can be empowering to some groups.
"...it's time..." I agree. The key is the infusion idea. Many or even most schools will not have or really need separate courses of study called "Ethnic Studies" or "Chicano Studies," etc. But EVERY school has U.S. History, World History, Geography, Literature, etc. classes. The goal in k-12 public schools to render the need for "Ethnic Studies" irrelevant because so much of the content and critical pedagogy has been infused into the "normal" curriculum that EVERY kid gets. That's when you know you've changed the institution. Right on to our gente, like Espiritu and many others, on the front lines in our schools.
Excellent Talk!!! I wished they'd had ethnic studies when I went to school. Very thought provoking.
Just another bigot activist organization. like the black panthers , skin heads, kkk....
Elias Serna Ethnic studies is based on racism, think about it.
Funny how most pointless arguments lead to name calling like mr serna did.
+aricars6263 read "Seize the Time" by Bobby Seale, and really learn about the Black Panthers.
@@aricars6263 Yes, it's Marxist race baiting, a go-nowhere degree where we can all blame capitalism and whites for historical woes and become radicalized because our degrees in ethnic studies isn't a marketable degree and thus we blame capitalism and the only job to get is teaching ethnic studies and radicalize more students in the future, and the process repeats itself.
I get the importance of empowering people to learn about other ethnic groups. It allows people to feel like they aren’t different and can phase out certain biases. However, I see the harm in telling students they are victims of society based on their race. Telling people that they are at a disadvantage is doing an injustice to young people. Someone could avoid trying as hard to achieve their goals if certain road blocks emerge, but that’s not always gonna be a race issue. A person who was taught the victim mentality, might try to see race in everything. That’s where it can be harmful and we need to keep that in mind. You’ll have a bunch of young people giving up when life gets tough. Possibly even try to overthrow governments that aren’t necessarily suppressing them.
If you’re receiving that type of push back for it being harmful, intellectually, we should open ourselves to other perspectives.
Nope. See, there was never a time when white boys and girls were not allowed to go to school because of the color of their skin. There was not a time they were humiliated and made to feel less because of their native language. Coming from a Mexican American, brown girl, I KNOW I have faced disadvantages BECAUSE of the color of my skin. But NO I do NOT have a victim mentality. However, it was not until my sophomore year in college when I took an ethnic studies class that I was equipped with knowledge and support to understand that there were struggles I faced as a child because of the disparities in our education system. As a little girl I felt that it was me, it wasn't. It was others. The point is not to tell kids "poor you, you're a minority and are a victim," but, "hey look, here are books that represent you and your culture, here is history that is more representative of the class, here is language that explain why you as a minority may fee a certain why AND you are not alone." Ethnic Studies is so important in middle and high school because it we need to learn more about ourselves, and others should too.
Ethnic studies is anti nationalist tho it teaches about in more detail really the rthnic history of thr us and what parts of how thr united stats functions effects people of color @DeepestTempest
@@karimemendiola6882There were absolutely white children who were made fun of for speaking their native language. You realize English isn't the only language spoken by white people right? And there were absolutely white children prevented from going to school due to ancestry, economic status, gender, family, war, etc. If you wanna argue for including more historical events and trends into the textbooks, then argue that and be prepared to explain why it either justifies an increased workload in class or why it should replace other events and trends currently taught to make room for it. Additionally, pointing to historical acts of oppression is not valid excuse for pushing a curriculum that advocates grouping people into racial and ethnic categories and treating someone differently based on their category, rather than just treating them as an individual. I'm not accusing you of advocating for any of that, its entirely possible you're not, however I can personally confirm that certain "ethnic studies" do exactly that. If you believe in something, then argue it, and explain why you believe it. From a Guatemalan/Indigenous-American
YOU ARE AMAZING. YOU ARE AN INSPIRATION. IN SOLIDARITY.
Go Ron! 🎉🎉🎉
My teacher for 9th grade
Can someone tell me why people are against it ?
How can I find him?
I see you, Ron!
Much Appreciations.
Awesome Ted Talk Espiritu!
❤🔥
Ron
is this man a Filipino trying to pass as a chicano Mexican American
LOL this is exactly why we Ethnic studies is important 🤣
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Ethnic studies, huh? Probably really gonna pay off in the real world...
nearly 40% increase in graduation passing rate. So yea, it already paid off in the real world. get rekt
yeah cuz in the real world, different ethnic backgrounds, histories, and struggles don't exist!
Useless education. Waste of time.
not as useless as you.
"Why ethnic studies matters....NOT."*
ethinc studies are woke and leftist democratic agenda
Then stay socially and culturally illiterate then.
The law banning ethnic studies was ruled unconstitutional on August 22, 2017.
my daughter sought Chicano studies class through a community college experience while in high school because her high school in LA didn't offer any such courses. She noticed how world history only dedicated a small section on the Aztec and or America's empires. As a result and love of Chicano Studies this fall she enrolled at UC Davis as a Chicano studies major. She is proud of her major regardless of the negative comments she receives from others who look at her major as less.
We can do anything we want with Ethnic Studies majors (just like any major)! I graduated from UC Berkeley last year and am finishing up my Masters in Education at UC Santa Cruz and still plan on applying to Law school in the future. Congrats to your daughter on getting into Davis! I am sure she will love it💙💛! External opinions don’t matter. She will do amazing!!!!
Nice of her. I didn’t get accepted into UC Davis but I did here at Sac State
Graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Chicana/o studies & minor in human rights. Love the professors, faculty and community built around the chi department, definitely felt heard and seen.
Hope she enjoys the crippling debt from studying a worthless major.
You go Mr.Espiritu! Proud and honored to of had you as a teacher.
Did he also tell you how capticalism is based on slavery and oppression?
ATAX Never had him as a teacher. But I am sure capitalism is based on slavery and oppression. One instance would be the disfranchisement of low wage workers with forced overtime and probed to policing.
where are you right now you still in LA?
@@saytax He was never my teacher, but it literally was based on that.
How can we find him to see if he would like to help in other state?
I will continue to fight for my fellow brown people im 29 and never had an option to take ethnic studies. It really saddens me that learning about your culture can be banned. The lack of accountability is sad in our histories however sweeping our history under the rug will not work.
Lol! You don't see that they want you to self segregate?
You go ahead and consider yourself a Chicana or African American while they consider themselves Americans. Get it. The subconscious programming: they belong here, you don't...not until you simply start referring to yourself as an American.
Please don't be so gullible. Pride comes before destruction.
I started taking this class in college as a requirement and I’m on my second week of it and as of now all we’ve been learning about are terminology within ethnic studies and genders. For example, Latinx… We learned that part of the meaning of this word comes from Latino or Latina that don’t want to be assigned a gender they can remove the “a” or the “ O”to be gender neutral but then there’s latine because Latinx is “too much of an English word”. I’ve been so confused as to how this relates to ethnic studies. I want to learn about our ethnic history, not about genders?
I recommend Aztlan Underground to all my young brothers; they opened my eyes when I was a 15 year old M.E.Ch.A historian.
Ah, yes I sure want my Ethnic Studies teacher not be able to properly speak Spanish 🙄
might have went a little over your head? I highly recommend taking ethnic studies course. It's amazing.
4:39-13:31
its about HOW it is taught
I'm a child survivor of Armenian Massacre Baku Azerbaijan January 1990 and a granddaughter of a survivor of Armenian Genocide of 1915.
A third generation of Armenians in the row to be persecuted.
You want to do ethnic studies? Come to me, I'll tell you all about it. To this day victims of Armenian Massacre in Baku and Sumgait are not heart, the perpetrators are not jailed, the Azerbaijani government just finished stealing some more Armenian land and the world is blind and deaf getting together sipping coffee while discussing hypothetical issues.
💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
Christian Armenian Karabakh was forced under the Muslim Turkish rule!!!!!!!!! Where are you, world????
African Americans and Latinos must stand in solidarity. Stop allowing elites to keep us weak and divided, fighting over crumbs.
I'm not sure if I'll go into educatibg vut I do wanna know more about how to infuse science education with ethnic studies pedagogy.
I know wat he says is true because my Uncle fought the State Department of Education in Arizona and had much thrown out because the European Americans and their Government deemed it as Anti Government,.......even though it was Native American studies,......We were told to learn the European's version of History,....that is a Total Disrespect to History and the Peoples of these Lands as well,........Hopefully and it looks like that All gonna Change soon for the Better,....!
I just don’t get it why it was illegal
Because it's a hobby rather than literally anything remotely useful. Ethnic studies textbooks authors will lobby to profit.
Timeless wisdom
This video taught me so much and really opened my eyes on a topic I knew about but I guess didn't process the importance of.
Thank you for helping students engage in meaningful community building.
☀️🌈☁️🕊️🙏🏾
15:39 yikes!
I love erhnic studies. It is the root, the platform of of culture, language and who we are. I appreciate your presentation. I teach Spanish but feel the need to expound on ethnic background to the raices. Reflection on the semilla, the seed. You are a profound person with rich raices through your familia. Your abuela, you parents help bring forth this strength and I thank all of you. Siempre luchando. Bendiciones a todos. ❤🙏
16:12
Hope to influence others like he does and help grow our communities. I love learning and empowering our people.
We should all strive to be Americans...dovided we will fall
If we didn't have mass migrations of non whites into the US because of the 1965 Immigration act, we wouldn't have to be coerced into appreciating ethnic studies. I do appreciate some books on the Aztecs or about slavery, but I prefer to choose what I read, and I don't want ethnic studies to be required reading for school kids..
"Coerced" into learning about the culture of people who were here long before your furthest ancestors? Do you consider yourself "coerced" when your children have to read about math, science, or white American History?
Or are you just afraid someone's going to tell them the truth?
@@TheDilla You have a point. I'm looking to read a book by an Ancient Indian. Do you have any suggestions?
In that logic, there is no possible assigned reading without "coercion." You are proving Ron Espíritu's point: American schools are plagued by histories that exclude non-whites. Should we start calling that coercion? That's why Ron is giving this talk.
@@ventana100 I would love to read a book by an Ancient west African so I could learn about all the great history of ancient Africans. Any suggestions? The fact is, if they didn't write history, there is no history to read about. Got that?
by that definition youre coerced into all school period lol
You're sister is my teacher 👍
TrueSolarMark you're not studying grammar.. That's clear.
Wanye Kest its just a comment bro
Trump is trying to get rid of this.
Apparently not hard enough.
@@saytax VIVA TRUMP 2020!!
One of the best professors at my old High school! Very inspirational and empowering.
" A growing body of research from education scholars shows that an Ethnic Studies pedagogy taught at the K-12 level exposes students to an empowering and academically rigorous curriculum that has proven positive academic and social benefits to students of all races. " There are only two studies, conducted on 9th graders, that show that ethnic studies improve grades, and they are poorly done and poorly analyze studies. They don't really prove anything. Even the authors say that the results cannot be extrapolated to other grades.
Here's just a taste of how wrong you are:
Aronson and Laughter’s (2016, p. 197) meta analysis found that culturally responsive curriculum resulted in;
Increases in student motivation (Bui & Fagan, 2013; Civil & Khan, 2001; Dimick, 2012; Ensign, 2003; Hill, 2012; Tate, 1995; Wortham & Contreras, 2002)
Increases in student interest in content (Choi, 2013; Dimick, 2012; Ensign, 2003; Feger, 2006; Gutstein, 2003; Martell, 2013; Robbins, 2001)
Increases in student ability to engage content area discourses (Civil & Khan, 2001; Gutstein, 2003; Martell, 2013)
Increases in student perception of themselves as capable students (Robbins, 2001; Souryasack & Lee, 2007)
Increases in confidence when taking standardized tests (Hubert, 2013)
Dee and Penner (2017) found that Ethnic Studies participation in one study of 1,405 students over five years “increased student attendance (i.e., reduced unexcused absences) by 21 percentage points, cumulative GPA by 1.4 grade points, and credits earned by 23 credits” (p. 129). Cammarota (2007) explains that a social justice curriculum such as what is the basis for Ethnic Studies “links learning to the students’ lived experience so that he or she can realize how education can be a tool to transform one’s existence...When these social injustices are engaged and critiqued, students begin to clear intellectual and emotional space for education. They become further engaged in learning when their education becomes a means by which they may challenge oppressive forces within their social contexts. Doing well in school makes sense for disadvantaged youth when it is linked to promoting social justice for themselves, their peers, and their communities.” (p. 95). Here's the full citation for the meta analysis study: Aronson, B., & Laughter, J. (2016). The theory and practice of culturally relevant education: A
synthesis of research across content areas. Review of Educational Research, 86(1), 163-206.
That's just for "Ethnic Studies" - what would the results be for the rest of the "normal" curriculum and instructional methodology were to be updated to be culturally responsive??
Thank you.
Es
SPEAKING TRUTH TO OUR REALITIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!! SUPER INSPIRING
Sounds like it would be an easy A. I’m sure it would be an easy major. I’m sure the people who it caters to will have nice and warm fuzzy feelings.
WERK IT ESPIRITU!🙌🙌
I disagree when anyone starts condemning Columbus (the Native Americans were warring tribes-against-tribes before Columbus--for 1. territory 2. power 3. scarce resources); no one living in America today should condemn what had to be done in Columbus' times to make America what it is today. Not saying wars aren't terrible, but find one place on Earth where humans weren't fighting a war there . . .
if one is interested in learning about any one ethnic group, one can find such books at a local library.
If one is interested in learning about white american history, one can find such books at a local library. keep white history out of our required education
When man first warned his contemporaries that the world was round....he was met with opposition and disagreement by the ordinary people.
When man first cautioned sanitation precautions to as-of-yet unaware village-folk....he was met with disbelief by ordinary people.
When man first struggled to harness the power of electricity....he was met with astonished terrified expressions by ordinary people.
______________________________
Now its the 21st century. Today, the millions of misled ordinary people hold firm to relativism, nihilism, and cuckoldry.
NO This is the United States where ENGLISH IS OUR LANGUAGE SO LEARN IT - You want to learn 'ethnic studies' then go to college BUT UNTIL OUR KIDS START GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL KNOWING HOW TO READ, WRITE & SPEAK ENGLISH AS WELL AS KNOWING HOW TO COUNT CHANGE & basic studies - Study ethnic studies in college NOT grade & high school.
It’s ethnic studies where they do speak English in, not a Spanish class lol