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Section: Demographics
Latinx
Latinas, Black Girls Respect, Defer to Moms Most
Latinas and African American girls defer to their mothers more than non-Hispanic white girls do, according to a University of Florida study.
May 27, 2008
Latinx
Migrant Education Program Graduates Honored in Pennsylvania
More than 75 students from across Pennsylvania were honored May 27 for graduating from the Education Departmentās migrant-education program.
May 27, 2008
African-American
Presbyterians Pick Black Leader for Seminary
For the first time in its 196-year history, one of the nationās oldest Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) seminaries will be led by a Black pastor, a triumph for African-Americans who hope heāll use his position to nurture the next generation of minority pastors.
May 26, 2008
African-American
Lani Guinier on Merit
In the keynote address to a symposium audience hosted by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University California, Los Angeles, Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier challenges the conventional assumptions about merit and the meritocracy of higher education.
May 22, 2008
African-American
Federal Officials Reviewing Inequity Complaints in a Mississippi School District
The U.S. Justice Department is looking into complaints of racial disparities within the Cleveland Public School District.
May 21, 2008
Latinx
Immigrants Are Assimilating Quickly, but Mexicans Lag Most, Report Says
Despite rapid growth in the immigrant population, newcomers of the past quarter-century have assimilated more rapidly than their counterparts of a century ago, according to a conservative think tank.
May 20, 2008
Students
Online School Targets Hispanics, Students At Risk
The stateās newest virtual charter school is expected to go online this fall, but only after a strategic campaign to recruit Hispanics and teenagers at risk of quitting or getting kicked out of public high schools.
May 20, 2008
Latinx
Critics ask: What Role Should TV, Radio Marti Play?
Two decades after Congress established the U.S. Office of Cuba Broadcasting, lawmakers and experts still cannot seem to agree on the programās mission.
May 20, 2008
Latinx
Families Sue Catholic School Over āEnglish Onlyā Policy
Four Hispanic families are suing St. Anneās Catholic School over a policy that requires students to speak English at all times while at school.
May 20, 2008
Native Americans
Obama Pledges New Era for Federal-Indian Relations
Pledging to usher in a new era of honest federal dealings with Indian tribes, Democratic presidential front-runner on Monday made an unprecedented stop in Montana Indian country for a rally at the Crow reservation.
May 19, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Indiana University Approved To Offer Doctorate in Black Studies
Since the Indiana Commission for Higher Education announced the approval of the new doctoral program in African American and African Diaspora Studies (AAADS) at Indiana University Bloomington more than a week ago, John McCluskey Jr. says he has felt both elated and relieved.
May 19, 2008
Asian American Pacific Islander
Report: Ethnic Pride Has Mixed Impact on Asian Americansā Ability To Deal With Discrimination
Strong ties to their ethnicity can reduce the negative effects of racism for some Asian Americans and intensify the negative effects of racism for others, according to a new report published by the American Psychological Association.
May 18, 2008
African-American
Bakerās Heat
Moving beyond the scope of the literary scholarship for which he is known, Dr. Houston A. Baker Jr., in his latest book, takes a fierce stand as a social critic and assesses several Black scholars and the writings that have won them recognition as public intellectuals.
May 14, 2008
Students
The Early Study Abroad Trend
A growing number of South Korean students are going to English speaking countries as teenagers in hopes of gaining entry into American universities.
May 14, 2008
Students
Asian Evasion: A Recipe for Flawed Resolutions
Asians are arguably one of the most misunderstood groups in higher education. Even categorizing āAsianā students can be quite confusing. For example, should data be disaggregated by different Asian subgroups?
May 14, 2008
Students
NC System Reverses Itself, Wonāt Admit Undocumented
North Carolina community colleges will have to wait longer for a resolution to a controversy over admitting undocumented students that has been brewing since the system issued a directive last December to do so as part of the prevailing open-admissions policy
May 13, 2008
Latinx
Southern California Districts Facing āNo Child Left Behindā Sanctions
At Las Palmitas Elementary School, nestled between rundown homes and fields of grapes, peppers and dates in Southern California, 99 percent of students live in poverty and fewer than 20 percent speak English fluently.
May 13, 2008
Latinx
Majority Latino South Texas Town Abolishes Decades-old Segregation
A South Texas town has abolished an anti-Hispanic segregation law more than seven decades after it was enacted.
May 13, 2008
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