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Ekk Sisavatdy, left, helps an incoming freshman at Highline College in Burien, Washington, as part of a program that assists Asian American and Pacific Islander students.

Asian American students push to reveal what the ‘model minority’ myth hides

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“I’m more than just Asian American and others’ perception of what an Asian American is,” says Ekk Sisavatdy, who works with students who don’t fit the straight-A stereotype of Asian American students.

Yamila Pastorino and Joana Dos Santos

A community college that found a way not to charge these DREAMers extra for school

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Ina Resnikoff, academic counsellor and learning specialist at North Shore Community College, with her student Osarumwense Agbonsalo, an immigrant from Nigeria

Easy access to community college is a boon to immigrant students starting out in the US

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Only two states offer free community college. Lawmakers in Massachusetts want to make it the third.

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