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Education
Vanderbilt professor says math education is too ‘white, cisheteropatriarchal’
A Tennessee university professor recently made the case that undergraduate mathematics education is discriminatory against queer and transge...
Ryan General
Crime
Student mob in India heckles visiting S. Korean women mistaken for Christian missionaries
A group of South Korean women was allegedly harassed by a mob of Indian students and accused of being Christian missionaries. The incident r...
Bryan Ke
Philippines
Students’ ‘anti-cheating hats’ during exams in the Philippines go viral
Students at Bicol University College of Engineering in the Philippines went viral for improvising their own “anti-cheating hats” and wearin...
Michelle De Pacina
Students report that crying during exams activates schools’ anti-cheat software
Students in remote classes have taken to social media to protest against some teachers’ use of anti-cheating software during exams. One us...
Videos
Exclusive: Saint Paul Public Schools district investigating violent student brawl caught in viral videos
The Saint Paul Public Schools district is investigating videos that appear to show Washington Technology Magnet School students of Asian de...
Editorial Staff
Emerson College targeted by ad campaign for suspending student group behind ‘China Kinda Sus’ stickers
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a nonprofit civil liberties group, has launched an ad campaign targeting Emerson ...
Chinese student who praised Tiananmen Square protestors was harassed by other Chinese students at Purdue
Purdue University’s president publicly responded to the alleged harassment and threats made to student Zhihao Kong, who posted on social me...
Jiselle Lee
Young girl spellbinds the internet with insanely flexible moves in viral video
A video of an extremely flexible girl performing gymnastic stunts has recently gone viral on social media. Spellbound: The video, which was...
News
UMass Lowell to build AAPI center, give scholarships to Southeast Asian refugee students with $1.5M grant
The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) will receive $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) over the course of five y...
24-year-old who recently earned his master’s from University of Chicago is shot, killed in Hyde Park
Friends and community members gathered on Wednesday evening to light candles and leave notes and flowers in an area in Hyde Park where a Uni...
Mother of teen viciously punched at basketball game calls for attacker’s mother to be arrested
A California mother is seeking justice after watching her 15-year-old daughter get violently punched at a local basketball tournament on Sun...
Carl Samson
SF students create a resolution urging the city to apologize for its anti-Chinese past
San Francisco may finally follow the steps of other California cities that have apologized for their historical discrimination toward the Ch...
New York
NYC substitute teacher suspended for allegedly sharing COVID-19 conspiracy theories to children
A substitute teacher in New York was suspended for allegedly sharing COVID-19 origin conspiracy theories and criticizing China’s commu...
Vietnamese language courses offered at Ivy Leagues Brown and Princeton for the first time ever
Two Ivy League universities are offering beginning and intermediate Vietnamese courses for the first time in their history. About the course...
Survey: 34% of white college students lied about their race to improve their admission, financial aid odds
A recent survey has found that 34% of its white respondents admitted to lying about being part of a racial minority to boost their chances o...
Judge rules UNC non-admittance of white and Asian students, race-based admissions not discriminatory
A federal judge endorsed the University of North Carolina’s (UNC) use of race as a factor in screening applicants after ruling that the univ...
Asian Americans in elite colleges would rise by 2 percentage points if admission is only based on tests, study says
Editor’s Note: The headline of this article has been updated from its original version to say that the number of Asian American studen...
Blind freshman cross-country runner hopes to finish 5k in 20 minutes or less with his 4th grade guide
One high school freshman hoped to run a 5k race in 20 minutes or less with the help of his fourth grade guide runner in West Fork, Ark., las...
Thy Nguyen
Bay Area
Identical Triplets Who Just Graduated From UCSD Ready to Embark on New, Separate Journey
Identical triplets Tiara, Taylor and Tiger Nguyen, 22, have graduated together with similar degrees from UC San Diego on Sunday. The details...
Asian American Students Who Don’t Get in Their First-Choice University End Up Just Fine, Study Says
A new study has contradicted claims that Asian American students are harmed if they fail to get into their first-choice college or universit...
Thailand is Implementing STRICT COVID-19 Protocols in Their Schools [PHOTOS]
When schools started reopening in Thailand a month ago, strict protocols were implemented to protect students from the risk of COVID-19 infe...
Harvard, MIT Sue U.S. for Seeking to Deport Foreign Students Enrolled Only in Online Classes
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a new visa policy tha...
US Plans to Deport International Students Who Only Have Online Classes
International students enrolled at U.S. institutions that will hold classes solely online this fall are at risk of being deported, the Immig...
Arkansas Senator Wants to Ban Chinese Students From Studying ‘Advanced’ Science and Tech in the US
Convinced that China is out to steal intellectual property, a Republican senator from Arkansas has suggested banning Chinese students from s...
Chinese Students Get Homework App Removed from Store With 1-Star Ratings During School Cancellation
Chinese students removed an app from the Apple App Store that teachers used to give students homework during the school suspensions in China...
Top Italian Music School Suspends All ‘Oriental Students’ from Classes Over Coronavirus Fears
A prestigious music school in Rome, Italy has sparked outrage for suspending all “oriental” students amid the country’s first two cases of c...
Chinese Students Show Off Their Jaw-Dropping Jump Rope Skills
A group of primary school students from China have gone viral after managing to pull off something extraordinary by jumping rope with dozens...
Australian University Uses ‘Racist’ Rule To Allegedly Stop Chinese Students From Controlling Student Union
International students at one of Australia’s leading universities had been banned from running in campus elections, a pre-emptive strike tha...
Asian Americans the Largest Ethnic Group in UC Admissions Again This Year
Asian American students will still be the largest ethnic group in the University of California admissions as the system admits its largest a...
25 Indian Students Commit Suicide After Glitch Posts Failing Grades After Exam
An alarming number of students in India have taken their lives following the release of exam results deemed questionable due to an alleged I...
The ‘MIT of China’ Holds a Student ‘Flexing’ Competition Every Year
Male students at Tsinghua University in China recently took to the stage to flex their hunky physiques. Earlier this month, China’s top uni...
Chinese High School Separates Boys and Girls at Lunch to Cut Down on Romances
A high school in Henan province, China is being criticized for a rule that segregates male and female students in the cafeteria as part of i...
Virginia Tech Depicts Filipino American Students as International Students in Promotional Flier
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly referred to as Virginia Tech, was recently called out for a flyer released by ...
Opinion
White Students Who Take a ‘Gap Year’ in Asia Only Perpetuate Toxic White Saviorism
Year after year, young British and American students flock to Asia to “find themselves” before dedicating 3-4 years of their liv...
Jin Hyun
Asia
Canadian Man Caught Scamming Thai Students With $4,600 Fake Internships
Two university students in Thailand have recently fallen victim to an internship scam allegedly ran by a Canadian man. Following an inve...
Civil Rights
Harvard Admits That White College Applicants Had ‘Stronger’ Recommendations Than Asian Americans
Asian American applicants are supposedly failing to get into Harvard University partly because of weaker recommendations suggested by a scho...