Education – Page 28 – CAHRO – California Association of Human Relations Organizations

Next to complaints relating to law enforcement, the concern for schools and education generates the greatest demand for the attention of human relations commissions. Because school decision making is diffused between boards of education, school administrators, and faculties human rights commissions are usually not able to establish strong working relationships with the education community and special strategies need to be developed.

Outstanding resources and model programs are available that cover just about every facet of education that would be of concern to a commission. Commissions may form education committees to examine specific needs, identify resources and programs, and develop strategies.

Should Everyone Go to College? For poor kids, ‘college for all’ isn’t the mantra it was meant to be

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:34:20+00:00 May 2nd, 2016|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Last fall a new instructor taught a remedial writing course at a community college in Maryland. Most of her students came from low-income backgrounds. Many had gone to broken schools. That they had made it to college at all was a feat.

In teaching them to write, she faced challenges that went to the foundations: Several

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At Brigham Young, a Cost in Reporting a Rape

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:34:20+00:00 April 27th, 2016|Education|

PROVO, Utah — Before she could move into a dormitory at Brigham Young University or sign up for freshman classes, Brooke had to sign the college’s Honor Code.

Part moral compass and part contract, the Honor Code is a cornerstone of life for

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Common Application to Change Gender-Identity Options

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:34:21+00:00 April 26th, 2016|Education, LGBTQ+|

Starting this summer, students who use the Common Application will be asked to state their “sex assigned at birth.” There also will be an optional free-response text field in which applicants may describe their gender identity.

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My Brother’s Keeper Hitting Growth Marks

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:34:21+00:00 April 25th, 2016|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Two years after President Obama established the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Task Force — a coordinated federal effort to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color — the initiative is on track to meet and/or surpass its initial goals.

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What Lawmakers in One State Talk About When They Talk About Diversity

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:34:21+00:00 April 22nd, 2016|Education, Intergroup Relations|

When Republican leaders in the Tennessee legislature passed a resolution in December declaring that the University of Tennessee at Knoxville had become a “national embarrassment” for its online posts promoting gender-neutral pronouns and inclusive holiday parties, university officials knew they would face a demanding legislative session this spring.

Conservative lawmakers saw the controversies as a sign that

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Students and protesters clash over LAUSD’s 15-stall gender-neutral bathroom

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:34:21+00:00 April 21st, 2016|Education, LGBTQ+|

LOS ANGELES — Security was ramped up at Santee Education Complex in South Los Angeles today, one day after some students clashed with protesters who rallied outside the campus to protest the recent opening of a gender- neutral bathroom on the campus.

Read more in the Los Angeles Daily News.

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One University’s Response to Students’ Demands on Race: Radical Transparency

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:34:22+00:00 April 21st, 2016|Education, Intergroup Relations|

When student protesters first issued a list of demands they said were needed to improve the racial climate at Emory University, Ajay Nair didn’t want to think his campus had a problem. But Mr. Nair, Emory’s senior vice president and dean of campus life, recalled what it was like to be a student of color

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How O.C. parents laid the groundwork for school desegregation in the U.S.

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:34:22+00:00 April 20th, 2016|Education|

As a child, Sylvia Mendez thought her parents’ court case was all about a playground.

That’s because in 1944, the bus would drop her off at the white school with the “beautiful playground.” But she would have to keep walking down the street to the Mexican school — two wooden shacks on a dirt lot next

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Appeals Court Favors Transgender Student in Virginia Restroom Case

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:34:22+00:00 April 20th, 2016|Education, LGBTQ+|

Weeks after a new North Carolina law put transgender bathroom access at the heart of the nation’s culture wars, a federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in favor of a transgender student who was born female and wishes to use the boys’ restroom at his rural Virginia high school.

Young Girls of Color Still Facing Challenges on the Road to Higher Ed

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:34:22+00:00 April 19th, 2016|Education|

It has long been assumed that girls of color are faring much better than their male counterparts. But that’s not necessarily true, experts say, drawing new attention to the daunting challenges that young girls of color face as they progress through adolescence and go on to enroll in college.