Minority Students

How Utah Aims to Equalize the Academic Disparity Between Have's and Have-not's

Yolanda Flores Niemann and Eric D. Packenham | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Language Arts, Education, Utah State University, Low-Income, Minority Students, Socioeconomics, GEAR UP, Utah, Utah Schools, College News
Yolanda Flores Niemann and Eric D. Packenham

Schools are imploding with the consequence of these changing demographics. Perhaps more than ever before in our nation's history, ensuring a quality education, and the contingencies thereof, is increasingly challenging.

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Are Teachers Too Hard On Minority Students--Or Too Easy?

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Racial Consciousness, Black Voices, Education, Video, Racial Bias, Minority Students, Science, Science News, Teacher Bias, Positive Bias, Science News

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/05/2012 06:28 PM EDT on LiveScience Black and Latino students may be getting less critica...

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Most Students Who Should Be Taking AP Exams Aren't

Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: AP Courses, Advanced Placement Courses, Education, Video, Ap Potential, AP Exams, College Board, Advanced Placement Exams, Minority Students, Advanced Placement, High School Students, Nmsqt, Psat, Latino Prosperity, Education News

While more high school students are taking the Advanced Placement exams -- and succeeding on them -- most students who should be taking the exams aren...

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Complaint: Teacher Called Haitian Student 'Little Chocolate Boy'

Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Leslie Rainer, Minority Students, Little Chocolate Boy, Haitian-Americans, Haitian Immigrants, Blanche Ely High School, Teacher Leslie Rainer, Chocolate Nobody Wanted, Teacher Calls Student Chocolate, Miami News

A South Florida reading teacher once accused of pretending to sprinkle "holy water" on an atheist colleague is now in hot water for allegedly calling ...

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Boy Stabbed At School Because He 'Wasn't Black Enough'

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Racial Bullying, Video, Bullying at School, Bullying Statistics, Bullying, Minority Students, Racism, Race, School Bullying, Minorities, Anti-Bullying, Education News

When one student stabbed 12-year-old Ryan Rodriguez in the back with a pencil and walked away, Ryan didn't have to ask for a reason why. He already kn...

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

| Teresa Wiltz | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Video, Education, Minority Students Education, Minority Students, Black Students, Applied Research Center, Achievement Gap, Education Trust, Poor Students, Minority Student Achievement Gap, Latino Student Performance, Black Student Performance, Latino Students, Low-Income Students, Education News

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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State 'Irrationally' Underfunds Schools By Billions, Judge Rules

Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Video, Lobato v. State of Colorado, Student Achievement, Colorado Public Education, Colorado Education Funding, Minority Students, Colorado Public Schools, Student Performance, Colorado Education, Education Reform, Class Sizes, Education Funding, Sheila Rappaport, Education Lawsuit, Colorado Schools, Education News

Supporters of an education lawsuit against the state of Colorado celebrated this weekend after a district judge ruled that the state severely underfun...

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Minority Parents: Schools Need Reform, But Children's Academic Success Is On Us

Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: School Reform, African American Students, Video, Minority Graduation Rates, Latino Students, Minority Students, Minority Parents, Education News

Studies have consistently shown that compared to their white counterparts, minority students are less likely to graduate high school on time or receiv...

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WATCH: John Legend Joins Forces With Education Advocacy Group

Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: John Legend, High School Dropout Rate, Will.I.Am, Stand for Children, Video, Shakira, Education Equality Project, Minority Students, Achievement Gap, Stand for Children Leadership Center, Education Advocacy, Dropout Crisis, Celebrities and Education, Education Reform, High School Dropouts, Dropout Rates, Education News

Music artist John Legend has joined nonprofit development and training organization Stand for Children to support a movement working toward improved p...

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Lawmakers: No Child Left Behind Rewrites Hurt Minority Students

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Video, Esea, No Child Left Behind Revision, No Child Left Behind Rewrite, Asian Students, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Minority Students, Black Students, No Child Left Behind, Education Reform, No Child Left Behind Reauthorization, Latino Students, Education News

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

Read More: Los Angeles Unified School District, Equal Education, English Learners, US Department of Education, Education, Arne Duncan, Lausd, Minority Students, Black Students, Lausd Civil Rights Probe, Civil Rights, John Deasy, Education News

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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Next Stop: College

Arva Rice | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: First Generation College Students, New York Urban League, Education, College, Minority Students, New York City, College Admissions, College News
Arva Rice

I am really pleased and proud to bring a resource to all the moms, like mine, who will stand on college campuses for the very first time with their children.

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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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State Affirmative Action Ban Ruling 'Nutty,' Attorney General Says

AP | By ED WHITE | Posted 11.11.2011

Read More: College Admissions, Affirmative Action, School Admissions, Minority Students, University of Michigan, Michigan Affirmative Action, Michigan Schools, Education Reform, Affirmative Action Ban, Michigan, Minorities, Education News

DETROIT -- A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the work of one of its three-judge panels and said it would decide the legality of Michigan's ...

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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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Philly Has Nation's Most Separate And Unequal Schools, Chicago, New York, Follow

City Paper | Daniel Denvir | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Education, Chicago Schools, Minority Students, Schools Unequal, Chicago, Schools Segregation, New York Schools, Philadelphia, Unequal Education, Philadelphia Schools, New York, Education News

Two new studies show that the Philadelphia region is one of the most separate and unequal when it comes to neighborhoods and schools for blacks, white...

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Share Of Youth In US At Record Low, Raises 'Urgent Questions' About Future Resources

AP | By HOPE YEN | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Taxes, Wisconsin, US Children, California, Youth, Education Budget Cuts, Children, Minority Students, Ohio, Education Funding, Census, Texas, Teacher Layoffs, Education, Pennsylvania, Florida, School Budget Cuts, Low-Income Families, School Budgets, School Cutbacks, Extracurricular Programs, Education Spending, Minorities, Education News

WASHINGTON -- Children now make up less of America's population than ever before, even with a boost from immigrant families. And when this generation...

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Two Silicon Valley Moms Pursue a 'Level Playing Field' in STEM Education

Mike Green | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Education, Freada Kapor, Minority Students, Christina Feeney, Mitchell Kapor, Silicon Valley, Innovation Economy, Stanford, Phillips Academy, UC Berkeley, Level Playing Field Institute, STEM Education, Smash, Oregon, Education News
Mike Green

Freada and Christina opened their hearts, homes and bank accounts to ensure hundreds of deserving students of color could receive the education that opens doors to success in the new Innovation Economy.

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AP Testing: Minority Participation Increases But Still Has A Long Way To Go

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minority, Advanced Placement Tests, Minority Students, Minorities, Advanced Placement, AP Tests, Education News

Ed. Note:The previous version of this story stated that 14 percent of all Hispanic and Latino students passed an AP exam. The statistics actually stat...

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For-Profit Colleges Charging More While Doing Less For Poorest

Bloomberg | John Lauerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kaplan, Kaplan University, College Education, Minority Students, Poor Students for Profit Colleges, Washington Post, Federal Student Aid, Online Degrees, For Profit Colleges, Student Aid, For-Profit Colleges, Budget Cuts, Business News

s state budget cuts lock students out of community-college classrooms or force them to stand in class, for-profit colleges are attracting hundreds of ...

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Colleges More Diverse, But Racial Gaps Persist

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Diversity, College Race, Minority Students, American Council on Education, College News

While U.S. colleges have grown more racially diverse in recent years, minority students – especially Hispanics – still lag behind on key m...

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Rationing Knowledge: The 'College for Some' Movement

Kati Haycock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Access and Success in Higher Education, College Completion Rates, College Graduation Rate, Unemployment Rate, College-and-Career-Readiness, Low-Income-Students, Minority Students, Global Competitiveness, Education News
Kati Haycock

This is America. We should be committed to expanding knowledge and opportunities for all, not just the chosen few.

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Obama Defends Education Policy, Takes On Teachers Unions

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama National Urban League, Obama Race to the Top, Obama, Obama Education Policy Speech, Obama Education Reform, Minority Students, Obama to Defend Education Policies to Critics, Barack Obama Urban League, Obama Urban League Education Policy, College News

WASHINGTON — Challenging civil rights organizations and teachers' unions that have criticized his education policies, President Barack Obama sai...

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Another Side of the Sixties: Black Panthers at UCLA (Photos)

Devon McReynolds | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slideshow, Black Panthers, Ucla, Black Panther Party, Minority Students, High Potential Program, Minority Student Activists, Los Angeles News
Devon McReynolds

The blood of Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins Jr. will forever stain the black and white checkered floors of UCLA's Campbell Hall.

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College From Pennsylvania to Chicago's South Side to the Future, With Fish

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hubbard High School, Chicago School Violence, College Minorities, Bucknell University, Chicago Charter Schools, College Success, Abraham Ramirez, Martina Camacho, Cps, Rolando Arroyo-Sucre, New Frontiers of Knowledge, Minority Students, College Access, The Potholes Report, Miguel Del Valle, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

Between the shootings steps from school boundaries and the domestic violence, there's not a whole lot of good news on the teen front. But I have some.

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