Educators in Boston’s public schools have begun outlining plans for an ethnic studies program, one they hope will help make the district’s curriculum more representative of its diverse student population.
More than 40 teachers and grassroots education activists attended a full-day conference at the Boston Teachers Union (BTU) building in Dorchester Nov. 16, to start work on building an ethnic studies program. They hope to introduce it into Boston Public Schools classrooms in an attempt to engage students and create a curriculum that better reflects their specific linguistic, racial and cultural backgrounds.