Education – Page 79 – 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.

Psychiatrist’s Apology Stands Out From Typical Scientific Regrets

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:44+00:00 May 21st, 2012|Education, LGBTQ+|

Robert L. Spitzer retired years ago but his influence has not. That’s why his recantation last month of his own paper, research purporting to show that therapy could turn some homosexuals into heterosexuals, has such extraordinary resonance. The work of Dr. Spitzer, a psychiatrist and Columbia University emeritus professor–who actually got homosexuality removed from the

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In Rutgers Spying Case, Voices for Gay Rights Urge Leniency

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:44+00:00 May 21st, 2012|Education, LGBTQ+|

In the two months since he was found guilty of using a webcam to spy on his roommate, Dharun Ravi has gone from being a symbol of antigay bias to being something of a folk hero, with rallies of his supporters urging the court to “free Dharun.”…

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Home of the Braves no more: Oregon bans Native American mascots

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:45+00:00 May 21st, 2012|Education|

SEATTLE — For years, Banks High School in Oregon has had its own local twist on the national anthem, signing off with “Land of the free — and home of the Braves!” That’s been a ra-ra reference to the yellow-and-black warrior with feathers and a mohawk that has always been the school’s mascot….

Opinion: Making Schools Work

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:45+00:00 May 21st, 2012|Education|

AMID the ceaseless and cacophonous debates about how to close the achievement gap, we’ve turned away from one tool that has been shown to work: school desegregation. That strategy, ushered in by the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, has been unceremoniously ushered out, an artifact in the museum of

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Dropout Expert: Reaching College Graduation Goals Starts with Fixing the High School Dropout Problem

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:46+00:00 May 16th, 2012|Education|

In America’s push for education reform, the college completion problem is now under the microscope. The Obama administration’s goal, for instance, is to have 60 percent of young people (aged 25-34) across the country with some postsecondary credential by 2020. But experts say this can’t be reached until another problem is solved: 1.2 million students

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Northwestern U. Scholars Mobilized in Countering Blog Attack on Black Studies

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:47+00:00 May 14th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

In five hastily conceived paragraphs, a White conservative blogger threw cold water on the warmly received dissertations presented by three African-American Ph.D. candidates at an academic conference last month.

Read more in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: http://diverseeducation.com/article/17068/

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‘Why Don’t We Have Any White Kids?’

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:47+00:00 May 14th, 2012|Education, Intergroup Relations|

IN seventh-grade English class, sun leaked in through the windows. Horns bleated outside. The assignment was for the arrayed students to identify a turning point in their lives. Was it positive or negative? They hunched over and wrote fervidly.

Floriande Augustin, a first-year teacher at the school, invited students to share their choices. Hands waved for

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North Carolina’s New Ban on Same-Sex Unions Leaves Faculty Benefits and Recruitment Efforts in the Air

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:48+00:00 May 10th, 2012|Education, LGBTQ+|

North Carolina’s image as a destination for gay and lesbian students and faculty members appears to have suffered as a result of the state’s overwhelming adoption Tuesday of a constitutional amendment that precludes any legal recognition of marriages, domestic partnerships, or civil unions between people of the same sex.

Attack on Black Studies Gets Writer Dismissed from Higher Education Blog

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:48+00:00 May 9th, 2012|Education|

A blog post attacking Black studies as an academic discipline has led to the dismissal of author Naomi Schaefer Riley from the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Brainstorm” blog at Chronicle.com. Billed as a blogging platform for ‘Ideas and Culture,’ Brainstorm had included Riley along with 12 other writers on the blogger roster…

Future U.S. Innovation Tied to Reshaping K-12 Education, Reforming Immigration Policies

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:48+00:00 May 9th, 2012|Education, Immigration|

ARLINGTON, Va. – To foster more innovation in the future, business needs to help reshape K-12 education to grow better thinkers, and the United States should reform its immigration policy to attract and keep talent from various parts of the world….

Read more in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: http://diverseeducation.com/article/17059/

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