Tag: Race: Page 99

Military

Academy Removes Questions About Racial and Religious Preference

ANNAPOLIS, Md. After protests from civil rights groups, questions about racial and religious preference have been removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s application form that allows local families to sponsor midshipmen.

August 14, 2006

Students

New “Multi-Race” Box Addresses Universities’ Concerns, and Raises New Questions

In a nod to America’s growing multiracial population, the U.S. Department of Education endorsed earlier this week a new system that would allow students to pick more than one “race” box on college applications — and in doing so has unleashed new questions that could have serious policy ramifications.

August 9, 2006

Students

Perspectives: To Close the Achievement Gap, Start By Analyzing and Using Campus Data

To address persistent student achievement gaps, colleges and universities must routinely collect and analyze data that track the progression of students from middle school through college, and use those findings to develop ways to better meet students’ needs.

August 1, 2006

Latinx

Former Colorado Governor Criticized For Comments On Racial Minorities

DENVER U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado on Friday distanced himself from comments by fellow Democrat and former Gov. Dick Lamm, who said racial minorities use racism and discrimination as pretexts for academic underachievement.

July 30, 2006

Home

Civil Rights Commission Takes On Diversity In Schools

WASHINGTON The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights assembled a panel of experts on Friday to discuss the educational and non-educational benefits of diversity for students in elementary and secondary education.

July 29, 2006

Community Colleges

Class, Race Factor in Counselors’ College Recommendations

High-school guidance counselors advise middle-class Black students without a strong academic record to apply to community colleges more than middle-class White students with the same academic record, concludes a new study.

July 25, 2006

Health

Discrimination Associated With Health Problems

African-Americans who experience racial discrimination have worse physical and mental health problems than others, concludes a new study from Columbia University.

July 23, 2006

Students

Impact of Race-neutral Admission At UC To Be Studied

The University of California’s Board of Regents agreed this week to study how the 10-campus system’s admissions and enrollment have changed in the decade since voters passed a law barring consideration of race and gender in public education.

July 20, 2006

Home

Black-White Gap in IQ Scores Closing, Study Finds

The gap in IQ scores between Blacks and White has narrowed since 1972, according to a paper to be published this fall in the journal Psychological Science.

July 17, 2006

Home

Report: Increased Education May Help Breed Segregation

Studies have long shown that education broadens an individual’s perspective and helps to diminish racist attitudes…

July 12, 2006

African-American

Perspectives: A View of the ‘N-Word’ from Sociolinguistics

During his hate crime trial, a White defendant said he used the N-word to “greet” a Black man, and not as a racial slur. He would later beat the man with a bat. Dr. Arthur K. Spears, an expert in sociolinguistics, says some words have complex histories and patterns of use.

July 11, 2006

Latinx

Scholars Ask Why Latinos View Blacks Poorly

Latino immigrants often hold negative views of African-Americans, which they most likely brought with them from their more-segregated Latin American countries, a new Duke University study shows.

July 11, 2006