What Betsy DeVos, an advocate of school-choice initiatives and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, as well as the rest of us need to know about cyber charter schools.
Students for Fair Admissions filed suit against Harvard College on behalf of a Chinese-American applicant.
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Here’s why disagreement about affirmative action will not end any time soon. Coming up next is a lawsuit brought by Asian-Americans challenging Harvard’s race-conscious policy.
What does the progress of black students look like?
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Statistics on black student graduation rates don’t reveal the complete picture: at highly selective colleges and universities, black student graduation rates range from 88 percent to 96 percent.
Why aren’t enough black students identified for gifted programs?
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Two students – one black and one white – with the same math and reading achievement could have very different likelihoods of being identified as gifted.
Creativity is a valuable skill. Why is it ignored in the admissions process?
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A recent report, Turning the Tide, urges colleges and universities to reexamine their admissions process. What about measuring creativity?
A key misunderstanding is that the Black Lives Matter movement – which is against the ‘state violence’ of black people – is anti-white.
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Rather than simply shutting down these groups, universities need to engage these difficult conversations to support the younger generation to fight together for meaningful social change.
Students of color are more likely to be suspended.
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Black students get suspended or expelled at a rate three times greater than white students. The cost: they fall behind in school, and the cycle of poverty and failure is perpetuated.
When people are nudged to see their similarities, outcomes in classrooms improve.
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Black male kids who start out by excelling in STEM gradually lose interest due to low teacher expectations and racial stereotyping. The result? Blacks hold only 6% of all STEM jobs.