Education – Page 40 – 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.

Whose History?

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:10+00:00 February 23rd, 2015|Education|

American history is constantly debated not only by historians but by politicians. So it was largely unsurprising when some Republicans started to criticize the new Advanced Placement U.S. history framework last year for allegedly downplaying positive elements of America’s past. Many historians were caught off guard last week, however, when the criticism grew legs, at least

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Sanctions Put Academic Freedoms to a Test on a Campus Far From Tehran

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:10+00:00 February 23rd, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

AMHERST, Mass. — Word of the new policy spread through Facebook, text messages and emails, leaving consternation and fury in its wake. The state’s flagship campus had announced this month that it intended to ban Iranian nationals from admittance to certain science and engineering programs, including physics, chemistry, and electrical and computer engineering, citing a

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Ideology Seen as Factor in Closings in University of North Carolina System

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:10+00:00 February 20th, 2015|Education|

An advisory panel of the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors has recommended closing three academic centers, including a poverty center and one dedicated to social change, inciting outrage among liberals who believe that conservatives in control of state government are targeting ideological opponents in

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Free Speech Can Be Anti-Gay

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:12+00:00 January 26th, 2015|Education, LGBTQ+|

A federal judge has rejected a series of arguments from Waubonsee Community College about why it should be permitted to bar an anti-gay group from passing out fliers on campus.

Racial Profiling on Campus?

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:12+00:00 January 26th, 2015|Education|

The debate over racial profiling — already a hot topic on many college campuses — gained renewed attention this weekend when Yale University police briefly detained a black male student Saturday evening. Black students and faculty members at many campuses charge that racial profiling is a fact of life for them, but this student’s experience

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White is the New Black in Neo-Civil Rights Language

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:13+00:00 December 15th, 2014|Education, Intergroup Relations|

I attended a CRT conference in education years ago, where a keynote introduced “White as the new Black.” She described, for example, how White supremacists often appropriate the language of oppression to describe their own place in the world—after having suffered some hyper-perceived loss of power. In other words, privilege and supremacy are so normal

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Schools’ Discipline for Girls Differs by Race and Hue

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:13+00:00 December 11th, 2014|Education|

STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. — To hear Mikia Hutchings speak, one must lean in close, as her voice barely rises above a whisper. In report cards, her teachers describe her as “very focused,” someone who follows the rules and stays on task. So it was a surprise for her grandmother when Mikia, 12, and a friend got

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L.A. Unified to require ethnic studies for high school graduation

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:13+00:00 December 9th, 2014|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District will be required for the first time to take ethnic studies classes as part of an effort to encourage stronger cultural understanding.

http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-ethnic-studies-20141209-story.html

Los Angeles Times

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Academic Racism in Play in Regard to Athletes

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:13+00:00 December 8th, 2014|Education|

The recent exposure of academic misconduct at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has shown us actions that contradict the school’s mission to “improve society and help solve the world’s greatest problems.” In fact, UNC has contributed in a bold and disturbing way to one of the greatest problems in higher education:

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Lawsuits Against Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill Urge an End to Race-Conscious Admissions

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:14+00:00 November 18th, 2014|Education|

An advocacy group opposed to race-conscious college-admissions policies is urging federal courts to end their use around the nation through lawsuits filed on Monday against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In contrast to the most recent challenge to such policies fielded by the U.S. Supreme Court—a lawsuit accusing the University

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