May Hara
Cognoscenti contributor
May Hara is an associate professor of education at Framingham State University, the co-author of "Teachers as Policy Advocates: Strategies for Collaboration and Change" and a former middle school English as a second language (ESL) teacher.
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I’m almost always the first Asian American teacher my students have had. That’s a problem
Students of color benefit from having teachers who share their racial or ethnic identification, writes May Hara. But increasing teacher diversity is an especially urgent issue for Asian Americans, the...