An independent investigator’s report on San Jose State University’s handling of a racially charged case in which a black student was bullied for weeks by his white roommates has found that the university acted quickly and did “everything it could” once it learned of the alleged harassment, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
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HONG KONG — Natalie Leung, a 16-year-old student in Hong Kong, first learned about the Holocaust about four years ago, when she read Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl.” The book opened her eyes to one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century in which six million Jews died at the hands
Federal authorities say evidence collected in a lawsuit filed by three Jewish families against an upstate New York school district “is sufficient for a jury to find that the district failed to respond to pervasive anti-Semitic harassment in its schools” by taking required action under a civil rights law.
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CHICAGO — By the time they reach eighth grade, according to federal tests, half of all African-American schoolboys have not mastered the most basic math skills that educators consider essential for their grade level.
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Arizona State University said Thursday that it is severing ties with a fraternity after the
WASHINGTON — More than he might have imagined just a month ago, President Obama has an opening with Tuesday’s State of the Union address to advance his argument to Congress that the rising inequality of economic opportunities is America’s “defining challenge of our time.”
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TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona State University is investigating accusations that members of a fraternity gave a party to commemorate Martin Luther King’s Birthday at which nonblack students mocked blacks by donning loose basketball jerseys, flashing gang signs and drinking from
SUMTER, S.C. — After South Carolina electrocuted George J. Stinney Jr. in 1944, his family buried his burned, 14-year-old body in an unmarked grave in the hopes the anonymity would allow him to rest in peace.
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