The Forgotten Minorities of Higher Education

Posted on AllSides March 22nd, 2019
From The Left
affirmative action, Asians

What affirmative action means for low-income Asians

If you are driving east on Florin Road toward Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, you will pass under a pedestrian bridge that has a message permanently affixed to it: “If you dream it, you can do it.”

It’s the kind of message I have seen in neighborhoods where aspirations far surpass resources — and in that way it is fitting. More than three-quarters of students at Burbank qualify for free lunches. A fifth of students come from households where Hmong is the...

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