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Highland Students Find Guidance, Resilience In Chicano Studies

Hannah Colton

June 13, 2018 |

KUNM |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

In 2014, Tucson schools found that performance and graduation rates improved dramatically when students completed classes in Mexican-American studies - the achievement gap closed within a matter of a few years. Now, a teacher in New Mexico is trying to replicate Arizona's success with a Chicano Studies class that takes students' through history and the reality of racism in their own lives.

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