Education – Page 60 – 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.

The Hidden Biases That Shape Inequality

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:44+00:00 August 12th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

New York—Take two equivalently qualified job candidates. One is known to be a parent. The other is not a parent.

With experimental scenarios like these, researchers have found substantial evidence of bias against mothers. In the studies of Shelley Correll, a professor of sociology at Stanford, childless women were roughly twice as likely to be called

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House Republicans Warm to Immigration Proposal Resembling Dream Act

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:45+00:00 July 24th, 2013|Education, Immigration|

Republicans in the House of Representatives showed signs of support

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Autistic boy bullied and abused by LAUSD aide at Valley View Elementary, attorney says

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:46+00:00 July 19th, 2013|Disability, Education|

A 10-year-old autistic child at a Los Angeles Unified School was bullied and physically abused by an instructional aide for six weeks, leaving him with post-traumatic stress disorder, an attorney told a jury today.

Read more in the Daily News of Los Angeles.

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Black surgeon to get $4.5 million in racial bias suit

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:46+00:00 July 19th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Dr. Christian Head of UCLA’s medical school alleged that the university failed to prevent discrimination and said he was routinely humiliated.

Schools Seeking to Arm Employees Hit Hurdle on Insurance

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:48+00:00 July 8th, 2013|Education|

As more schools consider arming their employees, some districts are encountering a daunting economic hurdle: insurance carriers threatening to raise their premiums or revoke coverage entirely.

Senate OKs measure on transgender students on sports teams

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:48+00:00 July 5th, 2013|Education, LGBTQ+|

California lawmakers on Wednesday sent the governor a measure that would allow transgender students to play for sports teams and use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity, not their sex.

There’s Reality and There’s Clarence Thomas

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:48+00:00 July 5th, 2013|Education|

I dreaded reading it. It took me almost a week to finally comb through the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Four days may not seem like much time to you. But for someone like me who is so passionate about educational justice, it seemed

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Study: Black-White Achievement Gap Has ‘Political Foundations’

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:48+00:00 July 5th, 2013|Education|

In a newly-published political science journal article, a Baylor University professor and a Notre Dame graduate student report that state policymaker attention to teacher quality tends to be highly responsive to low high school graduation rates among White students, but not so in reaction to low graduation rates among African-American students.

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Study Says Affirmative Action Does Not Do a Disservice to Students

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:49+00:00 July 2nd, 2013|Education|

A new study indicates that weaker students who are admitted to elite colleges and universities typically do as well as their better-prepared contemporaries, dispelling a widespread belief that affirmative action tends to do more harm than good.

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Inspired by Collins, a High School Coach Comes Out

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:19:50+00:00 June 27th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

When the soccer player Robbie Rogers and the N.B.A. center Jason Collins recently came out as gay professional athletes, it was hailed by many as a historic time. Barriers had been broken. Attitudes in pro sports locker rooms were being changed.