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NEW RESEARCH DEBUNKS THE UPWARD MOBILITY MYTH

By | September 6th, 2018|Uncategorized|

In America, if you’re ambitious and work hard, you can move up the socioeconomic ladder. At least, that’s the truism we all grew up believing.

But new research suggests such social mobility is far from the norm. It finds you are significantly more likely to hold a high-status (which usually means higher-paying) job if your parents

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Civil rights group says schools must address student anxieties on immigration enforcement

By | April 24th, 2017|Uncategorized|

School districts that fail to address the anxieties experienced by undocumented students as a result of federal immigration policies of the Trump administration may be violating their students’ constitutional rights to a meaningful education, the head of a Latino civil rights group said.

Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, was

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Academic Studies Underscore Benefits of Government Assistance to Poor

By | April 29th, 2016|Intergroup Relations, Uncategorized|

The sons of female beneficiaries of the U.S. government’s first welfare program for mothers tended to live longer, attain more education and earn higher income than their peers whose mothers were rejected from the program.

More recently, young children of families who, under a 1990s government initiative, moved from public housing to neighborhoods with less poverty

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More people are filing to become citizens in the face of anti-immigration politics

By | April 22nd, 2016|Uncategorized|

At a recent fair at the Long Beach Convention Center, more than 3,000 immigrants got free help filling out citizenship applications and practiced casting ballots at mock voting booths.

Events like this almost certainly were not what Republicans intended when they blocked President Obama‘s program to shield millions of immigrants from deportation. But

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D.A. says more San Francisco police officers sent racist and anti-gay texts

By | April 1st, 2016|Uncategorized|

San Francisco Dist. Atty. George Gascon said Thursday that his office had discovered more racist and homophobic texts by city police officers.

Five officers exchanged dozens of the newly discovered offensive texts in 2014 and 2015, Gascon said in an interview.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Antonin Scalia’s Death Probably Won’t Affect ‘Fisher,’ but It Could Change the Future of Affirmative Action

By | February 15th, 2016|Education, Intergroup Relations, Uncategorized|

The death on Saturday of Antonin Scalia, the sharp-tongued justice who shaped constitutional debates for nearly 30 years, could end up shifting the Supreme Court’s ideological balance. But his absence is unlikely to affect the highly anticipated ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the pending legal challenge to race-conscious college-admissions policies. In short,

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‘Gifted’ Black Kids Not as Likely to Get Placed in Talented Programs

By | January 25th, 2016|Education, Uncategorized|

High-achieving, Black, elementary school students are much less likely than their White peers to receive assignments to gifted and talented programs in math and reading, according to a new study.

However, the disparities in rates of placement essentially disappear among Black students who have Black teachers.

These are among the findings published last week in AERA Open, a

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By | October 31st, 2015|Uncategorized|

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