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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Defining Safe: One teacher’s battle for Asian American studies

Defining Safe: One teacher’s battle for Asian American studies

April 28, 2021

Albert Chan, a social studies teacher at Niles North High School, teaches one of the only high school Asian American studies classes in the country. The class was finally approved in 2016, more than ten...

The right side of an open book with light brown pages. Some of the pages are ripped. The top most page says “Asian American History?” and the background is turquoise.

TEAACH Act could make Illinois first state to mandate teaching of Asian American history in public schools

April 20, 2021

Samantha Fajardo, a first-generation Filipino American and a freshman at Oakton Community College, remembers flipping through her sixth grade social studies textbook and seeing a small paragraph titled...

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