Education – Page 35 – 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.

Education Gap Between Rich and Poor Is Growing Wider

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:23+00:00 September 23rd, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

The wounds of segregation were still raw in the 1970s. With only rare exceptions, African-American children had nowhere near the same educational opportunities as whites.

The shocking racial epithet hurled at USC’s student body president

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:23+00:00 September 22nd, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

When Rini Sampath decided to run for student body president at the University of Southern California, she said some students told her she would never win. She was a young woman and a minority, and she was running on a ticket with another woman, who was also a minority.

Their advice? Choose a white, male student as

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#IStandWithAhmed lesson: Curiosity is for white kids

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:23+00:00 September 17th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

This week, brown children across America learned a lesson: If you try to be like Steve Jobs, you could get arrested.

By now, you’ve heard about 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, a boy who brought a homemade clock to his high school in Irving, Texas. School officials and police called the engineering project a “hoax bomb.” Late Tuesday

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Not Up for Debate?

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:24+00:00 September 15th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations, Uncategorized|

With various working definitions of genocide, debates about the term’s application to historical events can get heated. But can such debates ever get a student kicked out of class? That’s what a sophomore at California State University at Sacramento says happened to her, after she challenged a professor who allegedly said the term “genocide” wasn’t

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Online Assistance Available for California Community College Faculty

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:24+00:00 September 15th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Dr. J. Luke Wood and Frank Harris III — two prominent education researchers — have developed a large-scale online professional development training program designed to help faculty at community colleges in California do a better job of teaching young men of color.

The initiative is a partnership between local community colleges and the Center for Organizational

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Achievement gaps widen for California’s black and Latino students

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:24+00:00 September 14th, 2015|Education|

For more than a decade, state educators have focused on helping black and Latino students perform as well in school as their white and Asian peers, calling the issue a social and economic imperative.

Data from a more difficult, new state testing system suggest that they still have a long way to go.

The new wave of

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#BlackLivesMatter Becoming Vital Part of Dialogue on Campuses

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:24+00:00 September 11th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

As students of color continue to find ways to process the events that have unfolded recently across the country, faculty and staff are also working to find ways to help students with this process—and cope themselves.

From changing curricula to even a new textbook titled Black Lives Matterto finding their places in protests with the students, the

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Opinions: Here’s why poor people are poor, says a conservative black academic

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:24+00:00 September 8th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

As public intellectuals go, few have been more prolific than Thomas Sowell. For more than 40 years, he’s been churning out books at the rate of one a year, in addition to writing a syndicated column and academic articles and teaching courses at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst, Brandeis and Stanford, where he is a senior fellow at

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Fear of New Pronouns

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:24+00:00 September 8th, 2015|Education, LGBTQ+|

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, under orders by the head of the University of Tennessee System, on Friday removed from its website a guide to pronouns that many transgender people prefer.

The guide, which led to numerous false reports that the university had banned the use of such traditional pronouns as “he” and “she,” created

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#FergusonSyllabus: How do we teach teens about injustice?

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:24+00:00 August 25th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

For America’s students, this last year has been a living history lesson in the making.

It’s common for the average teenager to wake up to a social media stream of dash-cam videos, hashtags and articlesdepicting police shootings and unrest in Ferguson, Mo., Baltimore, or even right here in Los Angeles.

Despite this full-on immersion, some teachers may

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