Don’t Call Them “Post-Racial.” Millennials Say Race Matters to Them
by Laura Bestler on June 7, 2011 - 2 Comments
by Dom ApollonShareThis | Print | Comment (1) Tuesday, June 7 2011, 10:05 AM ESTTags: millennials, post-race, research Editor’s note: This essay is the first in a three-part Colorlines series based on a series of focus groups conducted earlier this year by our publisher, the Applied Research Center. Part two will explore the language young people use to discuss racism [...]
Read more...Laws passed by Texas Legislature this session aren’t perfect, but they are progress in the battle
by Laura Bestler on June 6, 2011 - 0 Comments
PHYLLIS GUEST | Contributing Columnist Last month, clinical psychologist Mark Hatzenbuehler of Columbia University published a study in the journal Pediatrics entitled “The social environment and suicide attempts in lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth.” The article uses information on 32,000 high school juniors in Oregon. Why Oregon? Because it is the only state reporting to [...]
Read more...ACLU of Georgia to Gwinnett school system: quit filtering LGBT websites to students
by Laura Bestler on June 6, 2011 - 0 Comments
BY DYANA BAGBY JUNE 02, 2011 16:04 The ACLU of Georgia is urging the Gwinnett County Public School System to stop filtering LGBT websites from students or face possible legal action. “We have received complaints that Gwinnett County Public Schools has recently activated the ‘LGBT’ filter on software provided by Blue Coat. The ‘LGBT’ filter [...]
Read more...Nationally known artist-educator Ruthe Blalock Jones is named 2011 Red Earth Honored One
by Laura Bestler on June 6, 2011 - 0 Comments
BY BRANDY MCDONNELL Published: June 3, 2011 Ruthe Blalock Jones doesn’t recall ever aspiring to become an artist. That’s just what she always was. ” /> “Shawnee Women” is one of the many traditional “flat” paintings by Ruthe Blalock Jones, who has been named the 2011 Red Earth Honored One. Photo provided. “I [...]
Read more...Are Minority Kids Being Denied Opportunity Because Of Racism In Public Schools?
by Laura Bestler on June 6, 2011 - 0 Comments
by Christopher Andersson UW Newslab Originally posted 6/1/2011 Racism inherent in our institutions causes the achievement gap — not poor teachers or poor community, argued a panel of speakers at an event put on by the Social Equality Educators, a Seattle grassroots education organization. At the event, entitled “Achievement Gap or Opportunity Gap? Fighting Racism [...]
Read more...A Broadband Solution to America’s Education Crisis
by Laura Bestler on June 6, 2011 - 0 Comments
by DAVID HONIG on MAY 22, 2011 The New York Times recently reportedon the discouraging results of the 2010 civics version of the National Assessment of Educational Progress(NAEP). Administered every few years, this test – one of many subjects tested via the NAEP – is administered to a large sample of students in the 4th, 8th, and 12th grades [...]
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- Don’t Call Them “Post-Racial.” Millennials Say Race Matters to Them
- Laws passed by Texas Legislature this session aren’t perfect, but they are progress in the battle
- ACLU of Georgia to Gwinnett school system: quit filtering LGBT websites to students
- Nationally known artist-educator Ruthe Blalock Jones is named 2011 Red Earth Honored One
- Are Minority Kids Being Denied Opportunity Because Of Racism In Public Schools?
