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'I Thought You Were Black': Teacher Tells Student To Read Poem 'Blacker'

Posted 03.18.2012

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A Virginia high school English teacher is under investigation for allegedly asking the only black student in the class to read a poem in a "blacker" m...

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Joy Resmovits

Officials Attack School-To-Prison Pipeline At School Justice Conference

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Education News, School Discipline, Judith Kaye, Education, Russlynn Ali, Teacher Pay Gap, Education Department, Black Students, Achievement Gap, Education Disparity, Office of Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Hispanic Students, Education News

Jakayla Ivory, a St. Louis high-school student convicted of second-degree assault, likely would have gotten two years in jail. Instead, she went to sc...

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California High School Brawl Not Racially Motivated, Officials Say

AP | Posted 05.08.2012

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CARSON, Calif. — Classes were proceeding normally amid heightened security Thursday at a Los Angeles-area high school where eight students were ...

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4 Injured, 2 Arrested In Racially Motivated High School Brawl

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.07.2012

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CARSON, Calif. -- Dozens of students battled each other at a California high school Wednesday in a racially motivated brawl between black and Latino s...

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Joy Resmovits

Black, Hispanic Students Face More Suspensions

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Education News, School Discipline, Education, Teacher Pay Gap, Education Department, Black Students, Achievement Gap, Education Disparity, Office of Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Hispanic Students, Education News

Minority students have less access to advanced courses, more inexperienced teachers and face tougher disciplinary consequences than their counterparts...

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Blaming the Victims in Their Own Voices

Amy Wilkins | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Abby Sparrow, Tracey Sparrow, Dc School System, Black Male Education, Black Students, Black Males Education, Young Black Males, African-Americans-Education, Education News
Amy Wilkins

We don't know why the boys quoted by the Sparrows didn't mention the numbingly dull classes, the frequently absent teachers, the non-functioning science labs and all the other ways schools cheat them out of strong educations.

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Educators Alarmed: Black, Latino Students Perform at Levels of 30 Years Ago

| Teresa Wiltz | Posted 03.24.2012

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This piece comes to us courtesy of America's Wire. WASHINGTON —- Educators are expressing alarm that the performance gap between minority and whi...

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Black Students At Duke University Protest Recent Study

AP | MARTHA WAGGONER | Posted 03.20.2012

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RALEIGH, N.C. — An unpublished study by Duke University researchers that says black students are more likely to switch to less difficult majors ...

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'Income Achievement Gap' Nearly Double Black-White Performance Gap

| Louis Freedberg | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Income Gap, Standardized Test Scores, Video, Education, Income Inequality, Black-White Achievement Gap, Income Achievement Gap, Black Students, Achievement Gap, Standardized Testing, Stanford University, Latino Students, Education News

This story comes to us courtesy of California's EdSource Extra. In a dramatic illustration of the impact of income inequality on how children do in...

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Lack of Minority Teachers Attributed To Bias And Low Graduation Rates

Posted 01.11.2012

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Minority students will likely outnumber white students in the next decade or two, but the failure of the national teacher demographic to keep up with ...

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Lawmakers: No Child Left Behind Rewrites Hurt Minority Students

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 01.11.2012

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WASHINGTON — Minority lawmakers say House and Senate plans to rewrite the No Child Left Behind education law fail to protect minority children, ...

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Federal Probe: LA Schools Failed To Provide Equal Education For Minority Students

AP | By CHRISTINA HOAG and KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 12.11.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- A 19-month civil rights investigation of the Los Angeles Unified School District found that the district failed to provide an equal edu...

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Minority Students Face Harsher Punishments, Report Shows

Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: School Discipline, School Expulsions, Arne Duncan, Zero Tolerance, Ucla, Black Students, Student Discipline, Minority Students, School Behavior, Discipline, Zero Tolerance Policy, Disciplinary Policies, Latino Students, Justin Hamilton, Video, Education, Minority Students Discipline, Teachers Discipline, Civil Rights Project, School Suspensions, School Disciplinary Policies, National Education Policy Center, Education News

Black and Latino students are disproportionately more likely to experience harsher punishments by schools for infractions and misbehaviors, according ...

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Court To Decide Whether State Will Still Pay $70 Million For School Desegregation

AP | NOMAAN MERCHANT | Posted 11.17.2011

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — More than a half-century after federal troops escorted nine black students into an all-white school, efforts to desegregate ...

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Teacher Calling Black Students "Future Convicts" Reminds Us of Whats Wrong with Education

Dr. Boyce Watkins | Posted 10.31.2011

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Dr. Boyce Watkins

The American school system is probably one of the worst places in the world for black kids to be educated. There is no such thing as a six-year-old convict. We must find a way to give that child a chance.

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Bullying Victims See Lower GPAs, Especially High Achieving Blacks and Latinos

Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Minority Student Achievement, Minority Students, Black Students, Bullying and Gpa, American Sociological Association, Gpa, Latino Students, High School Gpa, High School Bullying, Black and Latino Students, High School, Bullying and Grades, Academics, Bv-Parenting, School Bullying, Video, Education News

Bullying victims often cite lasting psychological damage as a consequence, but a new study shows that those who are bullied also suffer academically, ...

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Harvard Admits Record Number of Black Students: But What About the Faculty?

Dr. Boyce Watkins | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Harvard University, Black Scholars, Drew Gilpin Faust, Black Faculty, Black Students, Lawrence Summers, College News
Dr. Boyce Watkins

Admitting students of color neither requires significant courage nor shows any real sign of meaningful progress when it comes to truly shaping the direction of a university.

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Can Segregation HELP? School Divides Students By Race To Boost Black Achievement

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: McCaskey East High School, Desegregation, Education, Diversity, School Segregation, Angela Tilghman, Segregation, Black Students, Acheivement Gap, Racism, Homeroom Segregation, Mentoring, Pedro Noguera, Video, Education News

UPDATE: After the segregated mentoring program sparked national outrage, McCaskey East High School has ended the policy, CNN reports. Pennsylvania's ...

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Study: 37 Percent Of Black Students In Calif. Drop Out

San Francisco Chronicle | Jill Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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More than a third of California's African American public high school students dropped out before graduation day, a startling number and one that's on...

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National Crisis: Black Boys Failing

Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Education, Math, Black Boys Fail, Black America, Black Students, Science, High School, Education Reform, Technology, High School Dropouts, Engineering, Barack Obama, English Language, Student-Failure, Education News
Mike Green

The crisis pointed to by the Council of Great City Schools has a reverberating impact upon the future of Black America and our ability to be productive and competitive in the Age of Innovation.

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Proficiency Of Black Students Is Found To Be Far Lower Than Expected

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education Demographics, Achievement Gap, A Call for Change, Black Student Achievement, Social Divides, National Assessment for Educational Progress, Black Students, Education News

An achievement gap separating black from white students has long been documented -- a social divide extremely vexing to policy makers and the target o...

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The Need For Role Models In Urban Education

James K. Stovall | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Parents for School Choice, Building Excellent Schools, Education, Black-Students, Boardsource, Charter Schools, Charter School Movement, Education Reform, Urban Teaching Fellows, Education News
James K. Stovall

Reforming education is the civil rights struggle of our time and there is not a person of color in this country who's energy can't be tapped to turn the tide.

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