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Thank you, Chloe Ting: What I Learned from Completing Five Fitness Challenges Being an Asian American female, I often felt othered in my own body because of my race and gender. It was hard enough to accept my Asian facial features, and a greater challenge still to accept my Asian female body that checked off every stereotype: no curves, small boobs, childlike, rectangular figure. In other words, an easy target for bullying, harassment and fetishism. Not only did I feel very conscious of my un-Kardashian-like form, I couldn’t run for very long, couldn’t lift myself off the ground into a fu...

After Mass Closures, Post-Pandemic Child Care Options Will Be Scarce Kiddies Corner owner Anne Osula holds a child before putting him down for a nap at the daycare in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood on February 12, 2021. Erin Clark / The Boston Globe via Getty Images By Driving to work before dawn last winter, Valerie Norris heard an NPR report about a terrible disease spreading in China — a pandemic, people were starting to call it. It sounded sad but very far from Rocky River, Ohio, where she’d led the Rockport Early Childhood Center for 34 years. A few weeks later, she knew better. It ...

Share this: A teachers leads a card game with older children at The Children’s Place, a center in Concord, New Hampshire that reopened in the fall of 2020 and has since then continued to operate under pandemic conditions. Credit: MaryLou Beaver The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. Driving to work before dawn last winter, Valerie Norris heard an NPR report about a terrible disease spreading in China — a pandemic, people were starting to call...