Education – Page 38 – 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.

Campus Diversity, Often Seen as Key to Learning, Can Have an Educational Downside

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:24+00:00 May 7th, 2015|Education|

Although diversity on college campuses is widely viewed as crucial for learning, negative experiences with students from other backgrounds may actually hurt undergraduates’ intellectual development, a new study suggests.

The study, based on tests administered to college students as both freshmen and seniors, linked negative experiences with diversity to declines both in students’ critical-thinking skills and

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Most Minority Students at U. of Illinois Report Being Racially Stereotyped

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:24+00:00 May 5th, 2015|Education|

More than half of minority students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign say they have been the object of racial stereotypes in the classroom, according to the results of a new survey conducted by a faculty group at the university.

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Colleges Respond to Racist Incidents as if Their Chief Worry Is Bad PR, Studies Find

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:25+00:00 April 21st, 2015|Education|

College administrations react to hate crimes, hate speech, and other high-profile incidents of bias by

focusing mainly on repairing their institution’s reputation, two new studies conclude.

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Value of Postsecondary Degree Higher Among Blacks and Hispanics

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:25+00:00 April 20th, 2015|Education|

When it comes to increasing the number of Americans with a college degree, the vast majority of Americans agree that the goal is important and that a postsecondary degree will be more important in the future to get a good job, a new Gallup-Lumina Foundation study has found.

First-Generation Students Unite

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:25+00:00 April 8th, 2015|Education|

Ana Barros grew up in a two-family house built by Habitat for Humanity, hard by the boarded-up buildings and vacant lots of Newark. Neither parent attended college, but she was a star student. With a 2200 on her SATs, she expected to fit in at Harvard.

Yet

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Racism a Lingering Problem Among Collegiate Millennials

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:25+00:00 April 6th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Kayla Tarrant loves the University of Maryland. But the campus tour guide says a racist email and photo attributed to her schoolmates makes her reluctant to encourage other black students to enroll “in a place where you feel unsafe and no one cares about you.”

Teacher hopes Southeast’s first LGBT school will be a haven

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:26+00:00 March 23rd, 2015|Education, LGBTQ+|

Math teacher Christian Zsilavetz wants to work at a school where he can be himself — somewhere he can mention that he used to play girls basketball or was married to a man.

Gender Gap in Education Cuts Both Ways

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 11th, 2015|Education|

Why do the best-educated girls do worse at math than top-educated boys?

Concern about this deficit exploded into public consciousness 35 years ago, when researchers in the department of psychology at Johns Hopkins University published an article suggesting the gap might be

Across North Carolina, Muslim Students Take Stock of a Trying Semester

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 11th, 2015|Education, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

On the campus of the University of North Carolina here — and at nearby North Carolina State University — memories of the February killings of three young Muslims still linger.

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Oklahoma President’s Swift Action on Racist Video Carries Risks

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 11th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

In the 48 hours since several University of Oklahoma fraternity members were caught on video singing a racist anthem, President David L. Boren has acted quickly. Just hours after the video emerged, he called the students “disgraceful” and said he hoped they would leave Norman. And on Tuesday he expelled two who had led the

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