California high schools are adding hundreds of ethnic studies classes. Are teachers prepared?

“We have all these teachers who have great hearts, who are really social justice minded, who really want to do ethnic studies because they’re thinking about themselves as, ‘I’m a culturally responsive teacher,’” said Theresa Montaño, a professor of Chicana and Chicano studies at Cal State Northridge. “But that isn’t enough to give you the knowledge you need.” 

https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2023/03/california-high-schools-ethnic-studies/

--CalMatters