Elana Shneyer and Adam Kaufman live a few hundred feet from Public School 165, the Robert E. Simon School, on West 109th Street, at the edge of Morningside Heights in Manhattan. When they started looking for a kindergarten for their son, who will start in the fall, the school was
Fewer freshmen than ever identify as politically centrist, reflecting the overall partisan polarization of the country, a new survey shows.
A little more than 42 percent of first-year students who participated in the annual American Freshman Survey indicated they were “middle-of-the-road” on political issues. This is the lowest percentage of moderate students the
Special Status Report
Hate Crimes Up Again: 14% in California’s Largest Cities in 2016, But Well Off Record Levels As Ideological Civil Conflicts Emerge
By Brian Levin, Director; Analytic Charting by Kevin Grisham, Assistant Director of Research; Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism-California State University, San Bernardino
Executive Summary
Hate crimes reported
Tiffany Cartagena said she was eating with her mixed-race girlfriend at a restaurant in Ohio last month when she heard nearby diners remark about the “monkey” at the next table.
Denver resident Gwendolyn Mami, an African-American, was on a January flight when another passenger proclaimed President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall would stem the flow of
A database the Trump administration said would help victims of crimes track the custody of suspected criminal immigrants mistakenly listed babies and other children.
The public database included the names of children, from infants to underage teenagers, in immigration custody.
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For Nicole Cuff and her friends, the 1992 Los Angeles riots used to feel like a piece of history, told in old stories by their parents or discussed and analyzed in school.
Recently, though, it’s started to feel much more real to her — like something that could happen again in the near future…
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WASHINGTON — President Trump vowed on Wednesday to challenge California jurisdictions all the way to the Supreme Court after a federal judge there stopped him from withholding funds to penalize them for shielding illegal immigrants.
Mr. Trump, who twice has been blocked by courts from
On average, white and Asian students earn a college-level credential at a rate about 20 percentage points higher than Hispanic and black students do, a new report shows.
Read more in Inside Higher Ed.
As violent attacks against Jews worldwide drop to their lowest in more than 10 years, the United States, particularly college campuses, have been the “hotbed of anti-Semitism,” according to a new report.
The report by researchers at Tel Aviv University, which covers data from 40 countries, found that violent anti-Semitic incidents, which include attacks with and
More than three years ago, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood made headlines when he defied the California Trust Act, a law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that restricts cooperation between local law enforcement officials and federal immigration agents. His stance riled the governor and California’s immigrant-rights groups.
Now,