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@aliaemily

staff writer . previously: // always: Hawai‘i kama‘aina

Washington, D.C.
Joined March 2012
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    2 Aug 2017

    I traveled to the Pine Ridge Reservation to learn more about the educational aspirations of its youth. My story:

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  2. 2 hours ago

    "Inspirational spaces can also be intimidating spaces." via

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  3. 5 hours ago

    . just made me realize that, taken together, my full name (minus the caucasian interludes) effectively translates into: "brackish colorful-orchid-yellow water." is that elegant or is that ELEGANT?!

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    14 hours ago

    are amazing... New research suggests that women’s suffrage helped reduce the precursor to the modern-day achievement gap in education, writes.

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    14 hours ago

    “'You are a bad person. The Chinese police are good people,' he recalled his seven-year-old saying—under psychological duress, he believes. He said he hasn’t been able to reach her since." This reporting, by , gave me chills.

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  6. 17 hours ago

    "The president's advisory commission [on Educational Excellence for Hispanics] has not met since Trump took office, the last chairman, Miami-Dade College President Eduardo Padrón, told Education Week through a spokeswoman."

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  7. 17 hours ago

    i hope this story prods people on all sides of the issue to question their assumptions—to think more deeply about what it will take, truly and fully, to confront climate change and prevent the planet's demise. 👏 👏

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  10. 17 hours ago

    Some of my favorite passages:

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  11. 17 hours ago

    This story by is so, so, so good—terrifying, humanizing, enlightening, riveting, and everything in between: via

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  12. Sep 4

    An unnerving investigation by into, as puts it, "the trap of self-censorship" that ensnares foreign academics who deal with China: . This point in particular stuck with me:

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    Sep 4

    Long, detailed, very good article on the trap of self-censorship for foreign academics dealing w China. Similar hassle/threat forces affect journalists, but we have more options of subject/ approach than scholars whose life work depends on access in China

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  14. Sep 4

    " ... my wife is Vietnamese, and she got admitted to the grad school she chose." = a tidbit a reader included at the beginning of an email as a preface to his critique of my coverage of affirmative action/Asian Americans. 🤔

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  15. Sep 4

    . just gave me the DL on —which I'd long observed from afar but never fully understood—and I now can cosign on this statement

    Everything does is so good it hurts
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  16. Sep 4

    nothing quite like the delight of making sure you have all the right lead sizes for your eclectic mechanical-pencil collection. oh, and two words: gelly rolls.

    Anyone else obsessed with getting back to school items? like yassss new backpack. I see you new markets. Let's go fresh erasers
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  17. Sep 4

    looking forward to this!

    One story, told over ten years, abt two students and their quest to get college degrees. On tonight at 9 pm. On whenever you want to listen...
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  18. Sep 4

    "Twitter becomes less bad once you accept that all tweets are bad." is at it again casually dropping some shrewd wisdom as he heads out the door for the day.

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    Sep 4

    "Americans have an unfortunate tendency to see U.S. history as an epic, sweeping narrative with a Hollywood-style happy ending. That false promise of the final triumph... is one reason why America’s struggles with racism remain so persistent"

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    Aug 28

    Most tweets would be better as not tweets.

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  21. Sep 4

    [assuming, as cautioned, that my 23andme analysis is accurate, it's pretty impressive that they were able to ID a small percentage of my DNA as Dai, which I just learned is an ethnic-minority group in China consisting of ~1M people.]

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