Gifted + talented = separate + unequal
“Gifted and talented” classes are mostly white and Asian, even at predominantly black and Hispanic schools, reports the New York Times. At P.S. 163 on the Upper West Side, black and Hispanic students...
View ArticleOberlin cancels classes after KKK scare
Oberlin canceled classes yesterday after someone reported “a person wearing a hood and robe resembling a KKK outfit” near Afrikan Heritage House early in the morning. Instead, the college scheduled a...
View ArticleGifted and racially balanced education
School districts are looking for ways to end racial inequality in gifted education, writes Sarah Garland on the Hechinger Report. As a second grader in 1975, she was bused from her middle-class...
View ArticleAn interesting defense
Hereis the charge: some people claim that Wisconsin’s ed-bureaucracy, which we will call “DPI”, because that’s it’s name, seems to have endorsed throwing students into concentration camps. Well, that’s...
View ArticleTwo separate issues
Apropos of Diane’s recent post about “superfun sameness”, which touched on one of my own personal betes-noires, “relevance” in teaching, I thought this would be a good time to talk about this article...
View ArticleEd Trust: Low-income kids hit ‘glass ceiling’
While low achievers are catching up, racial achievement gaps are widening at the advanced level, concludes Education Trust in a new report, Breaking the Glass Ceiling of Achievement for Low-Income...
View ArticleDiversity without racial preferences
Can Diversity Survive Without Affirmative Action? The Supreme Court will rule soon on whether the University of Texas can use race and ethnicity in admissions, points out the New York Times‘ Room for...
View ArticleUniversities don’t seek socioeconomic diversity
Focused on race-based affirmative action, many public universities aren’t eager to recruit low-income students, reports the New York Times. “It’s expensive,” said Donald E. Heller, dean of the College...
View ArticleRace at Roxbury CC
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick named Gerald Chertavian, who founded a job training program, to chair the board of troubled Roxbury Community College, which has been plagued by mismanagement and...
View Article76% oppose use of race in college admissions
Seventy-six percent of adults oppose “allowing universities to consider applicants’ race as a factor in deciding which students to admit,” according to a Washington Post/ABC poll. That includes 79...
View ArticleRace-based admissions faces ‘strict scrutiny’
The U.S. Supreme Court didn’t reject the University of Texas’ race-conscious admissions plan outright, as many had expected. However, justices voted 7 to 1 to send the Fisher ase back to a lower court...
View ArticleTeaching Trayvon
Common Core standards drafters want inner-city students to reach high standards, but don’t want teachers to “link literature to our students’ strengths,” writes John Thompson in the Huffington Post....
View Article‘Holistic’ admissions at Berkeley
When California voters barred the use of racial or ethnic preferences in college admissions, the University of California vowed to use a “holistic” process that considers socioeconomic disadvantages,...
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What colleges ask new students to read
Politically-themed books published since 1990 dominate summer “common reading” lists for incoming college students, according to Beach Books 2012-2013, the National Association of Scholars’ annual...
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Behavior explains discipline disparity
Angel Rojas, shot to death on a New York City bus, is mourned by his wife and children. A Dominican immigrant, Rojas worked two jobs to support his family. — New York Daily News Kahton Anderson, 14,...
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College debate: Is logic white?
African-American college students are transforming debate tournaments, writes Jessica Carew Kraft in The Atlantic. Traditional debate — based on logic and evidence — is tainted by “white privilege,”...
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Soul of a black/Latino teacher
José Luis Vilson, a middle-school math teacher in New York City (and a blogger), writes about race, class, and education in This Is Not A Test. “The heart of education lies in the relationship between...
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Celebrating girls — or stereotypes?
“Empowering” girls can look a lot like enforcing gender stereotypes, writes Scott Richardson on Pacific Standard. His daughter participates in Girls on the Run, a 5K run (or walk) for girls — no boys...
View ArticleLearning and rebuilding in Ferguson
The fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer — and the protests that followed — are now the subject of lessons at colleges near the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.
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The new segregation is socioeconomic
The New Segregation is a matter of social class, not race, argue Richard Kahlenberg and Carl Chancellor in the Washington Monthly. Starting in 2000, Montgomery County, Maryland schools have spent an...
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