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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2985" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_an_ethnic_studies_class_can_help_students_graduate" target="_blank"><strong>How an Ethnic Studies Class Can Help Students Graduate - Greater Good</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>A new study found that high school students who take ethnic studies are more likely to succeed in school. </strong></p><p></p><p>A ninth-grade ethnic studies class has a remarkably prolonged and strong positive impact on students, increasing their overall engagement in school, probability of graduating, and likelihood of enrolling in college, according to a <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/118/37/e2026386118" target="_blank">new study</a> of a curriculum offered at the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD).</p><p></p><p>The findings, which follow up on <a href="https://news.stanford.edu/2016/01/12/ethnic-studies-benefits-011216/" target="_blank">earlier research</a> by two of the authors indicating short-term academic benefits of the course, appeared in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em> in September.</p><p></p><p>The study provides “compelling and causally credible evidence on the power of this course to change students’ life trajectories,” said Thomas S. Dee, a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) and senior fellow at the <a href="https://siepr.stanford.edu/" target="_blank">Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2985, member: 1"] [URL='https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_an_ethnic_studies_class_can_help_students_graduate'][B]How an Ethnic Studies Class Can Help Students Graduate - Greater Good[/B][/URL] [B]A new study found that high school students who take ethnic studies are more likely to succeed in school. [/B] A ninth-grade ethnic studies class has a remarkably prolonged and strong positive impact on students, increasing their overall engagement in school, probability of graduating, and likelihood of enrolling in college, according to a [URL='https://www.pnas.org/content/118/37/e2026386118']new study[/URL] of a curriculum offered at the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). The findings, which follow up on [URL='https://news.stanford.edu/2016/01/12/ethnic-studies-benefits-011216/']earlier research[/URL] by two of the authors indicating short-term academic benefits of the course, appeared in the [I]Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences[/I] in September. The study provides “compelling and causally credible evidence on the power of this course to change students’ life trajectories,” said Thomas S. Dee, a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) and senior fellow at the [URL='https://siepr.stanford.edu/']Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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