Date uploaded: 2022-03-13 15:09:08
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the U.S. They make up more than 7% of the population, projected to grow to 36 million by 2060, yet account for just 2% of educators. And today's teachers aren't getting much education to make up for that mismatch.
When teachers’ colleges do train students in multicultural education, the focus is rarely on Asian American history and issues, said Sohyun An, a professor of social studies education at Georgia’s Kennesaw University.
USA TODAY interviewed more than a dozen Asian American educators, all of whom said they themselves learned virtually no Asian American history until college, where they experienced a sort of reawakening.
Now, amid a wave of anti-Asian violence, these teachers are going out of their way to work that history into their classrooms.
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