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California’s Push for Ethnic Studies Runs Into the Israel-Hamas War
California has grand ambitions for ethnic studies. By 2025‚ the state’s public high schools — about 1‚600 of them — must teach the subject. By 2030‚ students won’t be able to graduate high school without it.
For policymakers‚ a goal is to give California students‚ 80 percent of whom are nonwhite‚ the opportunity to study a diverse array of cultures. Research has shown that ethnic studies classes can raise grades and attendance for teenagers at risk of dropping out.
But even in a...