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A Successful Plan for Racial Balance Now Finds Its Future Uncertain
Date CapturedWednesday August 22 2007, 8:06 AM
NY Times reports, "White Plains’s plan takes pains to give parents genuine choices. In January and February, parents of entering kindergartners visit elementary schools and rank their top three picks. A family will get first choice, which 90 percent of families do, unless the number of applicants of that child’s race exceeds certain caps, which at a school with 100 kindergartners might be 13 blacks, 46 Hispanics, and 41 'others.' Should that happen, a lottery is held for all students in that racial group, with assigned numbers on colored slips of paper picked out of a basket at a public meeting. Remaining kindergartners get second choice or, rarely, third. Buses are provided for students living more than half a mile from school. The plan also balances assignments at the two campuses of the middle school."
Supporters of NYC Arabic school want founding leader reinstated
Date CapturedTuesday August 21 2007, 10:34 AM
Newsday reports, "School organizers have said religion will not be taught at the school, which will focus instead on Arabic language and Arab culture. There are a number of city schools that focus on a specific topic or culture. Officials have said they plan to open the academy on schedule on Sept. 4 despite statements by its vocal critics equating it with a madrassa, an Islamic religious school, and portraying it as a potential radical training ground.''
Author Kozol lectures TUESDAY at Mount Saint Mary College
Date CapturedMonday August 20 2007, 1:27 PM
Times Herald-Record reports, "Frank Davis, the Mount's coordinator of professional development, said the balance of the institute will try to inspire and re-energize teachers as they head back to the classroom. Its main focus will be on helping teachers and administrators deal with diversity — economic, language and ethnic diversity, but also diversity of abilities among students today." Jonathan Kozol's lecture will begin at noon Tuesday in Aquinas Theatre at Mount Saint Mary College in the City of Newburgh.
Americanization 101
Date CapturedSunday August 19 2007, 10:34 AM
NY Times op-ed contributor Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation opines on the Khalil Gibran International Academy, "Shanker said: 'If public schools become places where children learn that, fundamentally, they are not American, there will be no reason for taxpayers to continue supporting them. And there will be little to hold society together.' Ten years after Shanker’s death, this remains wise counsel."
SUNY New Paltz chosen 'Hottest Small State School'
Date CapturedThursday August 16 2007, 7:11 AM
Daily Freeman reports, "Palmer said many first-generation college students like Mejias credited SUNY New Paltz's diverse student body with making people of different backgrounds feel at home. Of the first-year students reporting their ethnicity, 27 percent come from traditionally underrepresented groups. Students also spoke highly of the new 57,000-square-foot Athletic and Wellness Center that opened in 2006. SUNY New Paltz is also ranked eighth among the best public universities and 44th among public and private universities in the North that offer bachelor's and master's degree programs, according to the U.S. News & World Report's rankings for America's Best Colleges 2007."
Newburgh school district unsettled by Supreme Court decision
Date CapturedThursday July 19 2007, 8:59 AM
Times Herald-Record reports, ""The state Department of Education is reviewing the impact of the decision. The issue will come before the state Board of Regents Wednesday, Robert Bennett, chancellor of the Regents, said yesterday. Among the mid-Hudson's 34 school districts, only four have non-white populations exceeding 40 percent: Newburgh (66 percent), Middletown (65 percent), Fallsburg (43 percent) and Monticello (44 percent), according to the most recent state Report Card data. Newburgh is the only one under a desegregation order. It went into effect in 1975."
Utica schools to re-examine racial balance -- Utica schools to re-examine racial balance
Date CapturedMonday July 16 2007, 9:20 AM
uticaOD.com reports, "A recent Supreme Court decision could affect policies governing the Utica City School District's magnet program and its plans to redraw school attendance boundaries, school officials said. While school leaders say they will stay committed to creating diverse schools, the court's decision to strike down two other districts' integration plans worries some community members who wonder if the district will keep pushing to achieve racial balance in schools."
Schools Diversity Based on Income Segregates Some
Date CapturedSunday July 15 2007, 8:53 AM
NY Times reports, "San Francisco began considering factors like family income, instead of race, in school assignments when it modified a court-ordered desegregation plan in response to a lawsuit. But school officials have found that the 55,000-student city school district, with Chinese the dominant ethnic group followed by Hispanics, blacks and whites, is resegregrating."
Aboriginal stories made visible
Date CapturedWednesday July 11 2007, 2:58 PM
The Age Company reports, "ELEVEN years ago, teachers sent to indigenous outback schools in the Northern Territory noticed one thing missing from the children's textbooks: Aboriginal faces. Just white faces, white kids and white stories relayed to remote Aboriginal communities."
BEYOND 'BROWN' -- RACE-BLIND ROADS TO DIVERSITY
Date CapturedMonday July 02 2007, 9:51 AM
NY Post Op-Ed contributor ANDREW J. COULSON director of the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom opines, "A central goal of compulsory integration polices has been to achieve racial balance at the school level. But Harvard's Civil Rights Project has observed that public schools are little more racially integrated today than they were before such policies were introduced.
White Plains defends using race in school choice program
Date CapturedMonday July 02 2007, 8:59 AM
THE JOURNAL NEWS reports, "To assign students, officials consider race, ethnicity, gender, whether any siblings attend the school and whether space is available. Lotteries are held when the demand is too great at one school or for blacks, whites or Hispanics when one or more of the groups are underrepresented at a particular school. White Plains officials contend that's a different situation than in Louisville, where the mother of a student sued after her son was denied a transfer because his school needed to maintain its level of white students to meet the district's guidelines. In Seattle, parents filed suit when minority students were chosen over whites to attend a high school to maintain its racial balance. Because race is just one of several factors used to assign students, Connors said the district should not be affected by the court's narrow ruling."
Diverse community can turn around our segregated schools
Date CapturedMonday July 02 2007, 8:22 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle opines, "City schools, unlike those in the suburbs, must deal with the social and economic impediments to learning such as poverty, joblessness and teen pregnancy. And they shouldn't be expected to go it alone if the district's abysmal graduation rate and poor test scores are to turn around. There must be a communitywide effort to improve city schools. Maybe that should be the new diversity model — all segments of the community pitching in."
What Yesterday's Supreme Court Decision Means For NYC Schools
Date CapturedFriday June 29 2007, 6:44 PM
The Politicker's Andrew Mangino writes, "That profoundly insightful excerpt is proof that the court — or at least one middle-road justice on it – is trying to update the law for the 21st Century. Justice Kennedy here is calling for community forums to solve the issues with new solutions that consider race but do not give it more weight than it deserves at the cost of other factors ranging from heritage to economic background to ideological perspective. It is advice directly aimed at a city like New York."
Ruling on race and schools watched
Date CapturedFriday June 29 2007, 8:50 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports, "A 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that voluntary race-based admission policies in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., schools are unconstitutional threatens Rochester's Urban-Suburban Interdistrict Transfer Program. But Fred Wille, superintendent of Monroe-BOCES I, says the decision won't shelve Rochester's program — the oldest voluntary school desegregation program in the United States. BOCES I coordinates it."
COMMENTS OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Date CapturedWednesday June 20 2007, 10:05 AM
Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, DC 20554 -- In the Matter of: Broadband Industry Practices -- "The American Library Association supports minimalist net neutrality legislation and regulation that preserves the competitive online markets for content and services. Bandwidth and access should be offered on equal terms to all willing to pay. Otherwise, broadband providers will be free to leverage their quasimonopolies into lucrative but market-distorting agreements. The vitality of voices on the Internet is critical to the intellectual freedom that libraries around the world are trying to protect and promote. Laws that preserve net neutrality are the best way to preserve a vibrant diversity of viewpoints into the foreseeable future."
At Black Colleges, Door Open for Whites
Date CapturedTuesday May 29 2007, 10:24 AM
AP reports, "The first of what are now called historically black colleges and universities was Cheyney University in Pennsylvania, which was founded in 1837 so that blacks -- barred from attending many traditional schools -- could get advanced educations. Since then, more than 100 such institutions have been established in the U.S. and about 285,000 students attend the schools each year. Lawsuits have forced many of the schools -- about half of them are public -- to diversify their student bodies, Baskerville said. In the 2005-06 school year, nearly 10 percent of their students were white, according to her association's data. Scholarships, new programs and recruitment have attracted dozens of whites to schools such as South Carolina State University, where they account for around 4 percent of the student body, said university spokeswoman Erica Prioleau."
Civics Exam: Schools of choice boost civic values
Date CapturedSunday May 20 2007, 9:23 AM
Patrick J. Wolf, professor of education reform and 21st century chair in school choice at the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions writes, "In summary, the empirical studies to date counter the claims of school choice opponents that private schooling inherently and inevitably undermines the fostering of civic values. The statistical record suggests that private schooling and school choice often enhance the realization of the civic values that are central to a well-functioning democracy. This seems to be the case particularly among ethnic minorities (such as Latinos) in places with great ethnic diversity (such as New York City and Texas), and when Catholic schools are the schools of choice. Choice programs targeted to such constituencies seem to hold the greatest promise of enhancing the civic values of the next generation of American citizens."
ATTENDANCE INCENTIVES
Date CapturedMonday May 14 2007, 10:16 AM
Attendance policy and programming, coupled with school climate and increased academic performance, offers a unique opportunity to engage the entire school community – parents, staff, students, and community members – in a process that will build upon the strengths of all concerned. Maintenance of high attendance rates depends upon incentives that range from climate/culture to district-wide and building programs to recognition for accomplishments to individual sanctions (disincentives). Each category has distinct functions. Although districts will differ in the incentives employed depending upon the philosophies and needs of family and community, programs are quite likely to span the entire spectrum. The specific strategies developed and implemented by a district will reflect the diversity and creativity that exists within schools and their communities.
Point is right on admissions
Date CapturedTuesday April 24 2007, 9:29 AM
Times Herald-Record opines, "The announcement from the U.S. Military Academy last week that it is looking at ways to change the racial balance in its admissions process is a good move, albeit one that has challenged all selective colleges and that is ripe for political grandstanding. West Point is competing in a college admissions arena that has changed significantly over the past few years, with more well-qualified students amassing superb resumes, often directed by admissions coaches who specialize in making each student irresistible to schools."
Academy might relax scores to admit blacks
Date CapturedThursday April 19 2007, 9:25 AM
Times Herald-Record Greg Bruno reports, "The nation's top service academies have all reported difficulties attracting minority talent in recent years. Black candidates have been especially hard to lure. Of 1,311 freshmen who entered the military academy last year, 78 were black, or about 6 percent. Overall, 6 percent of West Point cadets are black, versus 22 percent of the active Army and 12.5 percent of the country."
In Diversity Push, Top Universities Enrolling More Black Immigrants
Date CapturedTuesday March 06 2007, 10:50 AM
Washington Post reports, "The nation's most elite colleges and universities are bolstering their black student populations by enrolling large numbers of immigrants from Africa, the West Indies and Latin America, according to a study published recently in the American Journal of Education. Immigrants, who make up 13 percent of the nation's college-age black population, account for more than a quarter of black students at Ivy League and other selective universities, according to the study, produced by Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania."
SUNY posts record enrollment
Date CapturedMonday March 05 2007, 8:59 PM
Newsday reports, "The State University of New York has announced that student enrollment for Fall 2006 has increased for the ninth consecutive year to 417,583--a record for the 64-campus system. SUNY officials said that in addition to the historic, total enrollment, enrollment among minority students and full-time students grew as well and also represent the highest levels in the history of SUNY, which was established in 1948."
Senate Confirms Head of Indian Affairs
Date CapturedMonday March 05 2007, 8:54 PM
AP reports, "The Senate has confirmed Carl J. Artman as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, filling a post that has been vacant for two years."
Recognizing the accomplishments of Western New Yorkers
Date CapturedSunday March 04 2007, 2:48 PM
Buffalo News reports, "Barbara Nevergold, Ph.D., co-founder of the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women at the University at Buffalo, is one of five people to be honored this year by the State of New York with a 2007 Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award."
School Choice and Racial Diversity
Date CapturedWednesday February 21 2007, 5:33 PM
The National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education (NCSPE) at Teachers College, Columbia University and The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. "On May 22, 2000, The Civil Rights Project co-sponsored a roundtable discussion on school racial diversity. A major concern surrounding school choice policies is that they will lead to greater racial and socioeconomic isolation. The conference addressed the question: Under what conditions do school choice policies increase or decrease racial diversity?"
The Segregation of American Teachers
Date CapturedWednesday February 21 2007, 9:44 AM
By Erica Frankenberg, M.Ed., is a Research Assistant at The Civil Rights Project and Professor Gary Orfield, Professor of Education and Social Policy and Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. "This report shows that in an increasingly segregated national system of schools, faculty segregation tends to add to — rather than counteract — the separation of students. We see that the white teachers, who continue to dominate the teaching profession, tend to grow up with little racial/ethnic diversity in their own education or experience. Not only did white teachers, on average, attend schools when they were elementary school students that were over 90% white, they are currently teaching in schools where almost 90% of their faculty colleagues are white and over 70% of students are white."
Eden Prairie, Minnesota district may redraw map to balance ethnicity
Date CapturedTuesday February 20 2007, 5:52 PM
Star Tribune reports, "Superintendent Melissa Krull said in a letter sent to parents earlier this month that the state will soon move to name Forest Hills Elementary School -- the district's most diverse school with nearly 40 percent students of color -- as a 'racially identifiable' school." ....."District Communications Director Camie Melton Hanily said the state's formula for racially identifiable schools is based on enrollment figures for students of color; if a school's nonwhite enrollment is more than 20 percentage points higher than that of surrounding schools, both inside and outside the district, it is considered racially identifiable. Hanily said the state has not contacted the district about Forest Hills' diversity numbers yet."
University of Michigan Head Balances Law, Diversity
Date CapturedThursday January 11 2007, 7:29 AM
NPR All Things Considered: Recent judicial and electorate decisions in Michigan have limited schools' ability to use affirmative action to promote diversity, a development that has left colleges scrambling to form new strategies. Michele Norris talks with University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman, who says she remains committed to diversity. There are ongoing judicial challenges to Proposal 2, the ban on affirmative action that Michigan voters passed in November.
Race and Public School Assignments
Date CapturedMonday January 08 2007, 9:15 AM
Justice Talking presents, "Can race be a factor in deciding which public schools students will attend? That’s the main issue in two cases from Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky being heard in the U.S. Supreme Court this term. Although the programs differ, each school board is accused of discrimination for setting numerical targets for minority enrollment in order to maintain racial diversity in their schools. Join us for this edition of Justice Talking as we take a detailed look at how school districts assign students to schools."
LI kids need a diversity lesson
Date CapturedThursday January 04 2007, 5:20 AM
Newsday contributor Marc Bernstein, superintendent of the Valley Stream Central High School District writes, "The message of recent business association studies is clear: Unless students learn to work together, they will be ill-prepared to enter the competitive global economy, where, with the majority of the economically expanding world being non-Caucasian, students will have to relate to people from different backgrounds. The studies show that 21st-century skills must include communication and collaboration, in addition to abstract reasoning and problem solving. Time's Dec. 18 cover story said, 'A yawning chasm separates the world inside the schoolhouse from the world outside.' It recommended 'teaching kids to collaborate and solve problems in small groups.'"
The next cops
Date CapturedFriday December 29 2006, 6:26 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle opines, "The Police Department is working with the City School District to create a program that would bring police officers into city classrooms to teach students criminal justice. Upon graduation, the students would get credits that could be used toward a criminal justice degree at Monroe Community College."
The meaning of Brown vs. the Board
Date CapturedMonday December 25 2006, 4:42 AM
LA Times contributor GOODWIN LIU, law professor at UC Berkeley and co-director of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity writes, "According to the U.S. government's brief opposing the integration plans, Brown 'held that intentionally classifying students on the basis of race violates the equal protection clause.' In oral arguments this month, this position won a sympathetic ear from Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who likened the children in Seattle and Louisville to the children in Brown because 'they're being assigned on the basis of their race.'"
The Best and Worst in Education, 2006
Date CapturedFriday December 22 2006, 8:12 AM
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation concludes, "In 2006, momentum appeared to build to take action on the fundamental economic divide that continues to riddle K-12 and higher education—the very institutions that, in America, are supposed to be the 'great equalizers.'”
Educators want to reopen 'Brown v. Board' school
Date CapturedFriday December 22 2006, 7:12 AM
USA TODAY reports, ""Brown's old neighborhood school, Sumner Elementary, has been shuttered for years. Two black Kansas educators want to turn it into a charter school for at-risk students, most of whom, they say, will be black or Hispanic. Their bid, which goes before the Topeka school board next month, has a certain symbolic importance: Not only would it reopen the landmark building, potentially to children of all races — it illustrates how far the discussion on race and schooling has moved since Brown."
Speaking Truth to Power on School Desegregation. Is Power Listening?
Date CapturedThursday December 21 2006, 8:24 AM
TC contributor Amy Stuart Wells, professor of sociology and education and the deputy director for research at the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City writes, "The Supreme Court will have until the end of June to rule in these cases. At the end of the day, these nine justices will have to decide whether the means used by these two school districts justified their goal of racially balanced schools. No one knows what role the social science research will ultimate play. If the court, especially Justice Kennedy, is bent on ending attempts by school districts or other government entities to acknowledge our country's history of racial inequality and segregation and create race-conscious programs to address that legacy, then they (and he) will do so, regardless of the evidence that this will result in far fewer educational opportunities for poor students of color."
Ithaca Central School District report shows shortfalls in minority staff, AP participation
Date CapturedThursday December 21 2006, 7:26 AM
Ithaca Journal reports, "Diversity among faculty continues to be a struggle for the district. Of the 18 confidential or managerial positions, none are held by minorities. In 2005, only six percent of the district's teachers were minority, while 28 percent of the students the district educated were African-American, Latino, Native American or Asian. District Superintendent Judith Pastel said the district will be trying new ways to let a more diverse pool of people know openings exist in the area. 'For the first time we are going to use radio to advertise open positions,' she said. Beginning next year, the district will advertise on Power 106.9-FM, an urban radio station in Syracuse. The report card will be released every fall, the officials said."
Race-Based Programs May Face Final Curtain in Supreme Court
Date CapturedWednesday December 20 2006, 8:41 AM
Legal Times Tony Mauro writes, "In 1954, William Coleman Jr. sat next to Thurgood Marshall as he argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court. In the same chamber on Dec. 4, Coleman, now 86, watched as the arc of the landmark Brown decision took a stunning turn. He heard the Brown decision being invoked as a possible reason for striking down modern-day efforts to keep public schools integrated. "I was shocked," said Coleman, now senior counselor at O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. 'It's the most ridiculous thing in the world.'"
Professor flunks schools' curricula
Date CapturedThursday December 14 2006, 7:44 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports, "Making the learning experience relevant to black and Hispanic students, said [UCLA Professor] Howard, requires teachers to take the time to learn where a kid is coming from, value cultural differences to better relate to students, and inject students' cultural and community points of reference into math, language arts, science and social studies. Greater parental involvement and communication between teachers and parents is also a key, said Howard."
Adjusting a Formula Devised for Diversity
Date CapturedWednesday December 13 2006, 3:41 AM
NY Times reports, "After a federal appeals court barred Texas from explicitly counting race in admissions to its colleges, the state struggled to find another way to diversify the student body. Nine years ago, it came up with an elegantly simple formula: all students whose grades ranked them in the top 10 percent of their high school classes would automatically be admitted to any campus, including the flagship here."
What helps kids learn?
Date CapturedTuesday December 12 2006, 9:48 AM
The News-Sentinel columnist Kevin Leininger’s writes, "With 77 languages spoken in Fort Wayne schools alone, it’s self-defeating not to acknowledge that while diversity can be an asset, it can also complicate the educational process. Segregating students into more easily taught homogeneous groups isn’t necessarily the answer. But with $8.6 million of last year’s FWCS budget of $181 million dedicated to achieving racial balance – and with the U.S. Supreme Court reviewing race-based admission policies in Seattle and Louisville – we should at least be willing to discuss whether the quality of education has been helped or hindered by the social expectations heaped upon our schools."
Critics Aim to Overhaul Texas' Top 10 Percent Law
Date CapturedTuesday December 12 2006, 8:49 AM
NPR reports, "Supporters of the law say it has promoted economic and racial diversity in higher education, but critics say it's an unfair disadvantage to kids in competitive high schools."
Most Expensive Private High Schools
Date CapturedMonday December 11 2006, 10:39 AM
Forbes.com reports, "But despite the escalating costs, more elite schools are increasing efforts to diversify their student bodies. Financial aid budgets are on the rise, with help now extended to at least one in four students at most elite schools, allowing for a broader ethnic and socioeconomic mix than in years past. Over 21% of prep students are minorities, according to the NAIS, up from 16% ten years ago."
Clarity needed on race in schools
Date CapturedSaturday December 09 2006, 6:47 PM
Cincinnati Enquirer reports, "U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday plunged back into the divisive issue of reverse discrimination by hearing Louisville and Seattle school cases over assigning students on the basis of their skin color. The original lawsuits were brought by white parents denied their first choice of schools. The court's decision could affect hundreds of districts, including those in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, where many public school districts are even more racially imbalanced than in Louisville and Seattle."
High court takes a different look at school desegregation
Date CapturedThursday December 07 2006, 6:26 AM
The Journal News opines, "Hundreds of classroom integration programs across the nation, including one in the Lower Hudson Valley, could be in jeopardy if the U.S. Supreme Court's initial take on two test cases this week is an indication. The cases, out of Seattle and Louisville, were brought by white parents whose children did not get the schools of their choice due to racial considerations in forming the student bodies."
Black, white and Brown
Date CapturedWednesday December 06 2006, 7:37 AM
LA Times opines, "Breyer has the better of the argument. Taking account of race to bring children of different backgrounds together is fundamentally different from using race to keep those children apart. Is there a ray of hope that Kennedy, the likely swing vote in these cases, will agree?"
Rochester school integration effort at stake
Date CapturedWednesday December 06 2006, 6:33 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports, "A Supreme Court ruling striking down voluntary integration programs by school districts across the country could end the decades-old Urban-Suburban Interdistrict Transfer Program as Rochester-area residents know it."
'Resegregation' of Metro schools cited at high court
Date CapturedTuesday December 05 2006, 8:50 AM
The Tennessean reports, "Smrekar [associate professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University] said Metro Nashville's schools have become drastically unbalanced since the race-based requirements were abandoned. Metro Nashville has about 72,000 students, 37.8 percent of which are white, 46.5 percent black, 12.1 Hispanic, 3.4 percent Asian and less than 1 percent Native American or Pacific Islander. 'Nashville has more single-race schools in the district because they have removed race as an element in assigning students,' she said. 'Without a race-conscious policy, you get resegregation.' Since the end of desegregation, the district is home not only to more single-race schools, but also to more schools with a high poverty rate. And with a high poverty rate comes inequality, Smrekar said."
Football schools do well in classroom, but racial achievement gap exists
Date CapturedTuesday December 05 2006, 8:22 AM
The Orlando Sentinel reports, "A study released Monday by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida concludes that the majority of colleges and universities with the best football programs are making high marks in the classroom and on the field. The study also concludes, though, that there's a wide gap between the academic success of black and white football players."
Court Reviews Race as Factor in School Plans
Date CapturedTuesday December 05 2006, 3:20 AM
NY Times reports, "By the time the Supreme Court finished hearing arguments on Monday on the student-assignment plans that two urban school systems use to maintain racial integration, the only question was how far the court would go in ruling such plans unconstitutional. There seemed little prospect that either the Louisville, Ky., or Seattle plans would survive the hostile scrutiny of the court’s new majority. In each system, students are offered a choice of schools but can be denied admission based on their race if enrolling at a particular school would upset the racial balance."
Service-Learning Mentoring: One Answer to the Minority Teacher Shortage
Date CapturedMonday December 04 2006, 8:39 PM
TC Records writes "Some researchers believe minority students are more successful in the classroom when their teachers reflect their racial or ethnic group (The Collaborative, 2004; Nuby & Doebler, 2000). Others believe minority teachers are beneficial to everyone (Gordon, 2005; Gursky, 2002), and their presence can help create an awareness of and appreciation for diversity. Service-learning is one approach that can introduce prospective minority teachers to the field and prepare them to enter and succeed in teaching careers." Teachers College Record, Date Published: November 09, 2006. http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 12835, Date Accessed: 12/4/2006 8:38:00 PM
Court justices wrestle with desegregation arguments
Date CapturedMonday December 04 2006, 2:40 PM
USA TODAY reports, "The Supreme Court today stepped into the debate over voluntary public school integration plans, with justices questioning whether programs in two districts are an acceptable move toward student diversity or another name for illegal racial quotas. In separate arguments involving school districts in Seattle and Louisville, justices referred repeatedly to a 2003 Supreme Court ruling that permitted the limited consideration of race to attain a diverse student body on the college level."
Historic case in the balance
Date CapturedSunday December 03 2006, 6:54 AM
Newsday TOM BRUNE writes, "At the heart of the battle over the school integration case being heard by the Supreme Court is the legacy of the 1954 landmark decision in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education. For the Seattle and Louisville, Ky., school districts, which are being sued, that question becomes whether their goal of racial and ethnic diversity is valid, and whether it justifies using a student's race to create integrated schools."
The Benefits of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Elementary and Secondary Education
Date CapturedSaturday December 02 2006, 7:50 AM
The Benefits of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Briefing Before The United States Commission on Civil Rights Held in Washington, D.C., July 28, 2006 Briefing Report, "Based on the record, the Commission issued a number of findings, including: • There is little evidence that racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary schools results in significant improvements in academic performance; • Studies on the effect of school racial composition on academic achievement often suggest modest and inconsistent benefits; • Studies of whether racial and ethnic diversity result in significant social and noneducational benefits report varied results; • Much of the early research indicating educational benefits resulting from racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary schools suffered from serious methodological weaknesses; • A preliminary review of data on the overall relationship between school racial composition and student achievement as measured by the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress scores does not indicate a consistent strong relationship between the two after controlling for socioeconomic status; • While there are many research studies indicating that desegregated schooling is associated with higher educational and occupational aspirations , and to a modest degree, attainment for African-American students, methodological weaknesses in these studies make it difficult to isolate school racial composition as the cause of these aspirations and attainments; • While recent studies examining the relationship between desegregation and future wages found a small positive relationship after controlling for self-selection bias, research evidence on the relationship of school racial composition and actual wages is less definitive; • More recent surveys have indicated generally positive reactions to school desegregation, such as cross-racial friendships and greater understanding of racial and cultural differences, but some of these surveys do not definitively identify a causal relationship between the two."
Government Commission Questions School Desegregation Programs
Date CapturedSaturday December 02 2006, 7:29 AM
The New Standard reports, "A new government report that questions the merits of active school desegregation has met with harsh criticism from civil-rights groups. The report, released this week by the US Commission on Civil Rights, argues that racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary schools does not significantly contribute to academic improvement. The Commission is an 'independent,' bipartisan agency established by Congress in 1957. It is charged with monitoring federal civil-rights enforcement."
Balancing views on campus
Date CapturedMonday November 27 2006, 5:19 AM
Boston Globe contributor Cathy Young writes, "DIVERSITY in higher education was a major topic of discussion at a recent conference in Cambridge . The focus, however, was not on the familiar concept of diversity as a desirable mix of races, genders, and ethnic groups. Rather, participants deplored the lack of intellectual and political diversity on college campuses."
Diversity urged for top University at Albany post
Date CapturedMonday November 20 2006, 5:18 AM
Times Union Rick Karlin reports, "Emboldened by the victory of Gov.-elect Eliot Spitzer and upset at what it terms a 'casual comfort with insider decision making,' the Legislature's Conference of Black Senators is urging the University at Albany to consider minorities for the school's next president."
New Focus on Affirmative Action
Date CapturedFriday November 17 2006, 3:49 AM
The Washington Post reports, "The number of minorities -- particularly black Americans -- winning government contracts and being admitted to public colleges and universities in California has dwindled since a ballot measure was passed 10 years ago outlawing preferential treatment for minorities in those areas, according to a study released yesterday. The report comes as the longtime controversy over affirmative action is gaining new attention. Michigan voters last week adopted a constitutional amendment essentially taking the same action as California, and the American Bar Association is facing criticism from some groups for strengthening its diversity requirements for accreditation of law schools."
Justices to weigh school diversity
Date CapturedTuesday November 14 2006, 7:25 AM
USA TODAY reports, "The school districts in Louisville and Seattle are at the heart of a pair of legal disputes, now before the U.S. Supreme Court, that test whether public schools can use race as a factor in determining where students go to school. The cases, to be heard by the court Dec. 4, have drawn national attention because they could affect policies in districts across the country. The key legal question in the Louisville and Seattle lawsuits — which were filed by parents of white students who weren't allowed to attend the schools of their choice — is whether school-assignment plans that use students' race as a factor violate the Constitution's guarantee of equality."
Affirmative action is essential to education; end its erosion
Date CapturedThursday November 09 2006, 6:25 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle contributor Daan Braveman, president, Nazareth College writes, "Affirmative action is again under attack, this time in Michigan. Voters there approved a proposal banning affirmative action programs that give preferential treatment based on race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin for public employment, education or contracting purposes. Michigan joins Washington and California in banning the use of affirmative action programs. Such success in Michigan is likely to spark similar efforts in other areas of the country."
Teachers aim for inclusion in school events
Date CapturedMonday November 06 2006, 5:25 AM
Poughkeepsie Journal reports, "Teachers shared their ideas about how to celebrate diversity during the Multicultural Education Conference on Friday at the State University of New York at New Paltz. The 12th annual conference was sponsored by the New Paltz college and a number of state and local educational organizations. A total of 275 teachers, administrators, students and community members from the mid-Hudson Valley attended the event, themed 'Opening Minds, Closing the Gap: Fostering Achievement and Equity for All.'"
School thinks global with new class
Date CapturedMonday November 06 2006, 5:17 AM
Press & Sun-Bulletin reports, "Though 24 schools in New York state teach Mandarin Chinese, Albany High School is the only upstate school to offer the language, Binghamton officials said. Most of the schools that offer the language are clustered in New York City and its suburbs."
The Progress of Black Student Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities
Date CapturedSunday November 05 2006, 1:33 PM
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education writes, "For the fourteenth consecutive year, JBHE publishes its survey of the percentages of black first-year students at the nation’s highest-ranked universities and liberal arts colleges. This year, for the sixth time in the last eight years, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leads the other universities in the percentage of black students in its first-year class. The Ivy League schools did well with Columbia leading the group. Among the nation’s highest-ranked liberal arts institutions, there is a new leader. This year, Swarthmore College in suburban Philadelphia has the largest percentage of black students in its entering class."
ROTC debate heats up at Plattsburgh State
Date CapturedFriday November 03 2006, 7:43 AM
Press-Republican reports, "Those who support establishing a Reserve Officer's Training Corps program at the college largely argued that students should be afforded such a choice, no matter the personal feelings of various faculty members and students. Those against ROTC are largely opposed to forming a partnership with the military that could be construed as supporting America's current foreign policy, especially when it is with an organization they perceive as prejudiced against certain groups and one that trains people to kill."
Ithaca City Schools enlists NYU in quest for equity
Date CapturedThursday November 02 2006, 7:51 AM
Ithaca Journal reports, "The Ithaca City School District is receiving help from a New York University program to help the district better serve all of its students. The Equity Assistance Center at New York University's Metro Center is a program aimed at reducing disparities in education."
High School coaching jobs for blacks are few in New Jersey
Date CapturedFriday October 27 2006, 9:53 AM
Northjersey.com reports, "Opportunities have expanded for blacks in the NFL because of the 'Rooney Rule,' adopted in 2002, that stipulates that at least one minority candidate be interviewed for each head coaching vacancy. No such rule exists in the Garden State at the high school level because the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) is powerless to impact hiring choices. But some say the organization should be more proactive in encouraging schools to interview minority coaching candidates."
The racist e-mails
Date CapturedTuesday October 24 2006, 5:55 AM
Times Herald-Record opined, "The Monticello School District has placed an assistant principal and three office workers on paid administrative leave while it decides what to do to them for sending racist and pornographic e-mails to each other on school computers."
Sign-up for multicultural education conference ends Tuesday
Date CapturedMonday October 23 2006, 7:25 AM
Poughkeepsie Journal reports, "The 12th annual Multicultural Education Conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Student Union Building Multi-Purpose Room at the State University of New York at New Paltz, 75 S. Manheim Blvd."
Tolerance at schools may help stem the 'brain drain'
Date CapturedMonday October 23 2006, 5:59 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports, "Since business officials are concerned about the brain drain, could they get schools to focus more on how gay students are treated? Ognibene [gay teacher] had the following tips for business officials: If your business has written gay-friendly policies, perhaps including domestic partner benefits, share such policies with school boards. A school district's gay-friendly policy might make teachers feel safer about being 'out.' This allows gay students to have positive gay role models in their formative years. Ask schools if they have gay-straight alliances or diversity clubs. Ognibene estimated that slightly more than 20 schools here have such alliances, a big increase from the couple that existed when he started one at Fairport nine years ago."
CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS: Students' diversity outweighs teachers'
Date CapturedSunday October 22 2006, 8:11 AM
Times Herald-Record reports, "The National Education Association reports that 40 percent of the nation's public school children are minorities, but only 11 percent of the teachers are. It also says that 38 percent of America's public schools do not have a single teacher of color on staff. The report contends that students of color tend to perform better — academically, personally and socially — when taught by teachers from their own ethnic group."
Today's teachers face unique diversity challenge
Date CapturedFriday October 20 2006, 9:21 AM
Sun-Times News contributor Bryan Scherer, certified business and English teacher writes, "I think schools can do more to create a culturally diverse learning environment by matching teacher with student. Hiring more ethnic teachers to make those connections with minority students is a win-win. It would also benefit kids to hire teachers that have life experience, instead of selecting the same status quo new hire; typically, it's the 24-year-old that is starting his or her first job, and comes cheap."
'Ghetto' party, photos stir controversy at Texas law school
Date CapturedSunday October 15 2006, 10:15 AM
The Western Star (AUSTIN, Texas) reports, "The dean of the School of Law at the University of Texas has urged students to 'think twice' and 'think twice again' about their future conduct after the Internet posting of photographs taken at an off-campus party organized around a 'ghetto' theme."
Plattsburgh State is considering an ROTC program on campus
Date CapturedSaturday October 14 2006, 8:36 AM
Press Republican reports, "The Student Association has already weighed in on the matter, passing a resolution that states it understands the ROTC program comes with its share of controversy, namely for not allowing homosexuals to openly serve in the military. But the resolution ultimately supported the partnership as an 'opportunity to infuse social change by requiring enlisted students to participate in campus diversity programs.'"
Former U.S. education secretaries file brief supporting Jefferson County Public Schools desegregation policy
Date CapturedThursday October 12 2006, 7:53 PM
Business First of Louisville reports, "The Supreme Court will decide whether school districts can consider race when assigning students to schools in an effort to maintain diversity."
CSRQ Center Report on Middle and High School Comprehensive School Reform Models
Date CapturedFriday October 06 2006, 8:31 AM
This Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center report "serves as a consumer guide that will help decision makers sort through claims about which school reform approaches could truly meet the needs of students. The report is the first comprehensive review of middle and high school whole-school reform models ever issued. To prepare this report, the CSRQ Center screened nearly 1,500 documents and reviewed 197 studies on 18 widely implemented middle and high school models. We used rigorous standards that are aligned with the requirements for scientifically based research established by NCLB. Each model is rated on a number of dimensions, including evidence of raising student achievement. The reviews of the individual models provide education decision makers with profiles of each model and the evidence needed to make decisions to meet locally defined needs."
CUNY hiring bias alleged
Date CapturedFriday October 06 2006, 4:37 AM
NY Daily News reports, "As Columbus Day approaches, a number of prominent Italian-Americans are expressing concern that the City University of New York has a vendetta against them. Nearly 30 years after that ethnic group was included in CUNY's affirmative action program, Italian-Americans still face discrimination there, according to a university-commissioned report."
NYSUT partners with baseball museum for education program
Date CapturedTuesday October 03 2006, 9:57 PM
New York Teacher reports, "NYSUT is a partner in the Hall of Fame's 'America Grows Inning by Inning' education program. Besides providing financial support — the program gets most of its funding from the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Museum and Library Services — NYSUT members and staff also help develop the standards-based curriculum and market the program to their colleagues."
Ministers and school union reps convene
Date CapturedTuesday October 03 2006, 6:05 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports, "For the first time ever, City School District union heads and a ministers group met to address the concerns of current and former African-American school district employees. And in the first agreement in what could be a long dialogue, Rochester-area black ministers and union representatives agreed that the mix of approximately 85 percent white teachers and 85 percent black or Hispanic students needs to change."
Data Proposals Threaten Education and Civil Rights Accountability
Date CapturedWednesday September 27 2006, 8:14 AM
The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University concludes, "Data tracing trends over time is, of course, a central requirement of the No Child Left Behind Act, essential for judging compliance with various civil rights court orders, and required by the special education law. In some states, the change will make it appear that individual racial groups suddenly are performing substantially better or worse on some achievement tests even when nothing has changed about actual test results. One must not confuse the increases and losses in proficiency levels with actual achievement. In fact, policymakers would do well to be wary that the proposed guidelines do not result in unfair and arbitrary sanctions on schools and districts since the changes do not reflect actual improvements or losses in achievement levels."Lee, C. and Orfield, G. (2006). Data Proposals Threaten Education and Civil Rights Accountability. Cambridge, MA: The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.
School board formulates policy on religion
Date CapturedWednesday September 27 2006, 7:45 AM
The Daily Freeman reports, "School officials say teachers must maintain neutrality on religious issues while recognizing that some concepts can only be taught with a limited number of cultural references."
Aid for Teachers Urged
Date CapturedTuesday September 26 2006, 4:44 AM
NY Post DAVID ANDREATTA reports on the lack of diversity of NYC teachers, "Initiatives that help paraprofessionals become teachers and other incentives that offer financial aid in the form of loan forgiveness or housing aid are attractive and would better diversify the workforce if they were broadened, she [Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers] said."
National Science Foundation (NSF) awards $3.3 million grant to Cornell to bolster the percentage of women faculty members
Date CapturedMonday September 25 2006, 8:50 AM
EurekAlert announces, "Cornell is committed to diversity, gender equality and promoting an environment in which all faculty can achieve their potential in research, education and service. The representation of women faculty in the university's science and engineering departments falls too far below the level of female doctorates produced nationally, according to Cornell administrators."
Grim Minority Report Card on New York City Teachers
Date CapturedMonday September 25 2006, 4:28 AM
NY Post David Andreatta reports, "Christopher Brown, an executive with the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, said the federal No Child Left Behind law has hampered recruitment of minorities because teaching licenses are now not as easily transferable from state to state. 'The majority of blacks in this nation attend traditionally black colleges, most of which are in the South,' Brown said. 'We're seeing an increasing number of teacher candidates remaining in the states where they earned their degrees, because that's where they get certified.'"
15 State & National Groups Launch Coalition to Recruit 1,000 New Teachers of Color for Florida's Schools
Date CapturedSunday September 24 2006, 12:13 AM
Miami, FL (PRWEB) writes, "Florida faces a severe teacher shortage crisis, with a need for tens of thousands of new teachers every year. Additionally, the percentage of teachers of color in Florida is not representative of the percentage of students of color. Fifty two percent of the state’s students are Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian or multiracial but only 25 percent of teachers are individuals of color."
Is Ithaca Central School District really committed to equity?
Date CapturedWednesday September 20 2006, 7:49 AM
Ithaca Journal Op-Ed contributor Audrey Cooper, on behalf of ACTION: Activists Committed To Interrupting Oppression Now! writes, “'Continue efforts to recruit and retain a staff that is ethnically and culturally diverse. Ensure that all search committees see this as a key district goal, and enlist the support of the community in attracting and retaining staff of color at all levels. Train supervisors to insure (sic) that the workplace is free of bias, harassment, prejudice, or discrimination and is a safe and welcoming place for all employees.' Despite the intentions implied in the above words, many of the superintendent's actions indicate a lack of commitment to such recruitment and retention."
Columbia Alters Financial Aid for Low-Income Students
Date CapturedTuesday September 19 2006, 7:16 PM
NY Times KAREN W. ARENSON reports, "Columbia officials said that even though the campus already has the most socio-economically diverse student body in the Ivy League, the move to replace loans with grants for low-income students will enhance that diversity further."
Highlights of the Final Report of the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education: A Test of Leadership-Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education
Date CapturedTuesday September 19 2006, 5:24 PM
U.S. Department of Education press release: "Secretary Spellings formed the Commission on the Future of Higher Education to launch a national dialogue on the need to strengthen higher education so that our students and our nation will remain competitive in the 21st century. As a college diploma becomes more critical, higher education must be accessible to all Americans and meet the needs of America's diverse and changing student population. The Commission found that: College access, particularly for low-income and minority students, is limited by inadequate academic preparation, a lack of information and persistent financial barriers; The current financial aid system is confusing, complex and inefficient, and is therefore frequently unable to direct aid to the students who need it most; and There is a shortage of clear, comprehensive, and accessible information about the colleges and universities themselves, including comparative data about cost and performance."
Skip the Test, Betray the Cause
Date CapturedMonday September 18 2006, 3:29 AM
NY Times Op-Ed contributor Colin S. Diver, president of Reed College opined, "An institution that, commendably, seeks to enroll more minority and lower-income students can do so by giving less weight to SAT or ACT scores, either across the board or in selective cases. But concealing the applicants’ test scores is just willful blindness."
In New Jersey, a Community Divided
Date CapturedSunday September 17 2006, 9:35 PM
NY Times reports, "The state’s findings made no mention of religion, but the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, which made the initial complaint to the state, did. It said that the school catered to the Orthodox, who rarely send their children to school with those who are not Orthodox. This summer, when the State Department of Education ordered the district to correct the special-education disparity and the district appealed the order to the education commissioner, a big rift in Lakewood grew bigger. It is a rift that has deepened in recent years as a group that once had little to do with public institutions began to join them, electing its members to a majority of school board seats and two of the five township committee seats."
Social Studies Goes to the Back of the Class
Date CapturedSunday September 17 2006, 8:53 PM
NPR Liane Hansen discusses the importance of math and reading with Fred Risinger, former coordinator of Social Studies Education at the School of Education at Indiana University.
The battle over charter schools in California
Date CapturedSunday September 17 2006, 11:31 AM
Inside Bay Area reports, "Despite the growth, charters make up only about 6 percent of the state's schools, and they enroll only about 3 percent of California students, according to EdSource, a nonpartisan educational policy group. Charter schools never have found easy acceptance in the state. School districts have fought or blocked their creation within city boundaries, teachers' unions accuse the movement of undermining hard-won contracts and charter operators complain they have been hamstrung and undercut by a confusing and constricting stream of laws that stifle the very reform the schools were formed to foster."
Harvard Ends Early Admissions, and Guess Who Wins
Date CapturedSaturday September 16 2006, 1:06 PM
NY Times reports, "Harvard officials argue that the program gives yet another leg up to well-off students, who don’t need to compare financial-aid offers from numerous colleges and who often attend high schools where counselors help put together applications. After the announcement, many people within education urged other colleges to take a similar step."
No Worm for the Early Bird
Date CapturedFriday September 15 2006, 8:26 AM
Wall Street Journal opined on early admissions, "This week, Harvard University announced a plan to drop its "early admission" program in order to encourage more economic and racial diversity in its applicant pool. That the Crimson gatekeepers are trying yet another strategy to promote campus diversity will surprise no one."
Taking charge, making history: Stewart, Binghamton's first black principal since '80s, brings enthusiasm to Horace Mann
Date CapturedWednesday September 13 2006, 7:18 AM
Press & Sun-Bulletin reports, "The district hired Stewart, who worked for five years as principal of Sidney Elementary School in Delaware County, because he's an experienced, successful elementary school principal whose style of collaborating with parents and teachers fits with Binghamton's philosophy, Superintendent Peggy J. Wozniak said. But the fact that Stewart is black is a plus as the region's most racially diverse school district makes efforts to diversify its staff, Wozniak said."
Gay guide lists Vassar in top 100
Date CapturedMonday September 11 2006, 6:20 AM
Poughkeepsie Journal reports, "The college offers a variety of courses that focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, including 'Queer Theory,' 'Lesbian Sex and Politics in the United States' and 'Queer Alphabets' — a freshman course focusing on gay and lesbian literature."
Changing classrooms require change in teaching methods
Date CapturedSunday September 10 2006, 11:56 AM
Beacon News reports, "Local [Illinois] educators need to adapt their teaching styles to their increasingly diverse classrooms, West Aurora school administrators told a group of new teachers during an Aurora University seminar last week."
Let Schools 'Look Like America,' Too
Date CapturedFriday September 08 2006, 7:49 AM
LA Times opined, "The administration [Justice Department] is telling the court that school systems that place a priority on diversity violate the 'equal protection of the laws' guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. In his brief, Clement argues that'"the use of a racial classification to achieve a desired racial balance in public schools' is just as unconstitutional as old-fashioned racial segregation."
Exam-free rule for religious holidays in New York City schools
Date CapturedTuesday September 05 2006, 4:29 AM
NY Daily News reports, "The law was spurred after statewide English exams for third-graders were scheduled during the Muslim holidays of Eid-al-Adha and Eid-al-Fitr during the last school year."
North Carolina to Pilot 'No Child Behind' Program
Date CapturedThursday August 31 2006, 8:07 PM
The Pilot reports, "With the pilot project, schools entering their first year of Title I School Improvement in these seven districts must offer supplemental educational services to eligible students. If these schools continue not to make AYP, they must offer public school choice next year, while continuing to offer supplemental educational services. The piloting districts were selected based on geographic diversity, unique district characteristics and demographics, interest shown by the district and the projected numbers of Title I schools in the district that might be entering year one of Title I School Improvement in 2006-07."
Los Angeles School District reform measure likely faces day in court
Date CapturedThursday August 31 2006, 10:44 AM
Los Angeles Daily News reports, "The California School Boards Association, one of the powerful opponents to the legislation, believes there is little doubt the bill is unconstitutional."
Test results similar among San Diego campuses
Date CapturedThursday August 31 2006, 9:11 AM
UNION-TRIBUNE reports, "Where choice programs make the biggest difference is in diversifying school populations to include a mix of ethnicities, races and socioeconomic backgrounds, according to the study. Nonwhite students, especially black students, are generally more likely to participate in choice programs than whites. Usually, these students opt to go to schools that have more white students and are higher-achieving."
Houston, Texas schools minority report
Date CapturedWednesday August 30 2006, 6:24 PM
The Dothan Eagle reports, "Hiring and promoting minorities is the Houston County Schools’ last obstacle before coming out from under a federal desegregation order. A competitive labor market and convincing minorities fresh-out-of-college to locate to a rural area is making this tough."
Debate continues over content of kids' required reading
Date CapturedSunday August 27 2006, 8:09 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports on censorship in schools, "We face enough problems trying to raise children today. What they see on TV or at the movies is bad enough, but when you give it to them and call it curriculum, we begin to lose the battle," she (a parent) said. 'I don't want to shelter my children from what happens in life, but I think we need to be held accountable for our choices in teaching them life lessons.'"
Administration backs white school parents in integration appeal
Date CapturedFriday August 25 2006, 2:40 PM
San Francisco Chronicle publishes LA Times report, "For decades afterward [Brown vs. Board of Education], school districts across the nation adopted policies to bring about racial integration in their classrooms: Some set enrollment guidelines that prevented schools from becoming nearly all black or all white, while others have used magnet programs that consider a student's race. Many of those policies remain in effect. Clement, the Bush administration's chief lawyer before the high court, said such programs should be struck down whenever they involve the use of a 'racial classification' to decide who may enroll."
College costs rise in region
Date CapturedMonday August 21 2006, 8:10 AM
The Daily Freeman reports on higher education in the Hudson Valley, "From fuel to food, prices are rising and the cost of a higher education in the Hudson Valley is no exception."
Looking beyond textbook learning: Upstate educators urged to embrace innovation at Saint Rose institute
Date CapturedSaturday August 19 2006, 8:21 AM
Times Union reports on seminar, "He [Noguera] is considered by many to be one of the nation's most important voices on education reform and diversity. The institute, formed last year with a $1.6 million federal grant, trains educators to better deal with modern issues affecting schools. Much of Noguera's address focused on creating a solid environment for teaching in urban areas, especially when dealing with low-income and special education students, as well as those who do not speak English. Teachers and administrators, especially in urban school districts, must work hard to create strong relationships with students to interest them in learning, he said."
Hispanics seek bigger cut of Buffalo schools work
Date CapturedThursday August 17 2006, 10:46 AM
Buffalo News reports, "Community leaders, for the second time in as many years, are claiming that Hispanic workers and contractors are being shut out of the huge public works project."
BLACK SETBACK AT KEY CUNY SCHOOLS
Date CapturedThursday August 10 2006, 8:08 AM
NY Post David Andreatta reports, "Dr. Selma Botman, CUNY's chief academic officer, said freshman enrollment among blacks was up 11 percent across the senior colleges and suggested the overall decline at Hunter, Baruch and City was a reflection of a shift in career interests among young blacks."
CUNY Seeing Fewer Blacks at Top Schools
Date CapturedThursday August 10 2006, 2:03 AM
NY Times KAREN W. ARENSON reports on equitable access to CUNY, "Laura M. Schachter, the dean for diversity and compliance at Hunter, said that many qualified black and Hispanic students did not know much about Hunter and did not apply. 'It is our job to make them aware,' she said."
Proposal Adds Options for Students to Specify Race
Date CapturedWednesday August 09 2006, 7:55 AM
NY Times reports, “'We basically have a continuous way of defining these categories that’s gone on for close to 40 years, and this is going to be a big change,' said Gary Orfield, the director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard, who said the proposal would harm the ability of researchers and civil rights groups to track race on campus."
Consensus driven Taxnightmare.org READER WRITES...
Date CapturedTuesday August 08 2006, 3:02 PM
"Everyone knows the problem - - out-of-control property taxes as the major source of school funding. The taxes are destroying diversity, communities, and open space. They are regressive and confiscatory. It's a crisis. Our one goal is to have the state assume the responsibility for funding schools through some means other than property taxes. Period. We will define the candidates by how nearly their agenda approximates our goal .Gioia." (CLICK on blue link for tax group website.)
Changes in Staff Distribution and Salaries of Full-time Employees in Postsecondary Institutions:
Date CapturedThursday August 03 2006, 8:26 AM
This NCES study examines the changes that occurred between fall 1993 and fall 2003 in the distribution of staff and average salaries of all full-time staff— faculty, administrators, and support personnel—at postsecondary institutions. Li, X. (2006). Changes in Staff Distribution and Salaries of Full-time Employees in Postsecondary Institutions: 1993–2003 (NCES 2006-152). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.
Cornell, Colgate designated gay-friendly; Ithaca, SU also among the 100 best campuses listed in new college guidebook
Date CapturedTuesday August 01 2006, 7:43 AM
Post-Standard reports, "Queer studies, as it is often called, is not yet a staple on campus. Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva are among the relatively few schools to offer a major in Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Studies, although the schools didn't make the new guide."
College 'bubble' is about to burst: Schools are strategizing now
Date CapturedMonday July 31 2006, 8:49 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer reports, "The drop is expected to be about 4 percent nationwide, but far sharper in the Northeast, according to the U.S. Department of Education. In Pennsylvania, a 10 percent decline is predicted. New Jersey's larger, and growing, Latino and Asian student populations mean that state probably will fare better than most, with an anticipated drop of just 2 percent."
Grant to support diversity education
Date CapturedSunday July 30 2006, 10:07 AM
Post-Standard reports, "Among the highlights are a youth mural project; a trip to the Onondaga Nation; a diversity education session for youth workers - followed by practical application; and a Unity Day Fair, with homegrown examples of diversity, including food, crafts and dance."
Feeling Strains, Baptist Colleges Cut Church Ties
Date CapturedSaturday July 22 2006, 8:27 AM
NY Times reports, "The issues vary from state to state. But many Southern Baptist colleges and their state conventions have been battling over money, control of boards of trustees, whether the Bible must be interpreted literally, how evolution is taught, the propriety of some books for college courses and of some plays for campus performances and whether cultural and religious diversity should be encouraged."
Pentagon Pays for Students to Learn Foreign Languages
Date CapturedFriday July 14 2006, 6:02 PM
NPR reports, "It's part of a government effort to prepare the U.S. for global security challenges."
Massachusetts global education bill arouses concern
Date CapturedTuesday July 11 2006, 3:44 PM
The Jewish Advocate quotes bill sponsor, "'Places like China, Japan and the Middle East are our new neighbors. This is the direction we’re heading, in terms of business and other opportunities. It seems to me it would be important for our students to be learning more about the world around us,' she said."
Top 100 Degree Producers 2006 - All Disciplines - Total Minority Associate
Date CapturedFriday July 07 2006, 3:20 PM
Diversity Online reports all Top 100 Degree Producers 2006 - All Disciplines - Total Minority Associate (see links at site)
Top 100 Degree Producers 2006 Education - Total Minority Baccalaureates
Date CapturedFriday July 07 2006, 3:15 PM
Diverseonline reports top 100 Education Baccalaureates for minorities.
Growth, Diversity Highlight Arlington's 'Wonderful Story'
Date CapturedWednesday July 05 2006, 11:07 AM
Catholic Herald reports, "Catholic schools in the Arlington Diocese continue to grow and reach out to minority students in an unprecedented way, Dr. Timothy J. McNiff, diocesan superintendent of schools, told a group of journalists June 28 at a press briefing in Arlington."
Teachable Moment
Date CapturedMonday June 26 2006, 8:23 AM
The Post-Standard
Law schools may have to show diversity for accreditation
Date CapturedTuesday June 20 2006, 8:58 AM
Diversity debate still courted
Date CapturedTuesday June 13 2006, 7:18 AM
School choice vs. diversity
Date CapturedWednesday June 07 2006, 10:10 AM
The high court, race and education
Date CapturedWednesday June 07 2006, 8:21 AM
Race-Based School Placements Get High Court Scrutiny
Date CapturedMonday June 05 2006, 11:16 AM
BLACK & WHITE AND SEEING RED (NY Post registration)
Date CapturedThursday May 25 2006, 11:07 AM
California Gov. Schwarzenegger Pledges to Veto One of the Transsexual-Bisexual-Homosexual Curriculum Bills
Date CapturedThursday May 25 2006, 7:57 AM
UAlbany president selects adviser on China
Date CapturedWednesday May 24 2006, 8:08 AM
Colleges' economic diversity differs
Date CapturedSunday May 21 2006, 9:53 AM
Feds: Lack of diversity in IT could derail U.S. competitiveness
Date CapturedThursday May 18 2006, 12:12 PM
No offense, history exam is fine
Date CapturedWednesday May 17 2006, 7:58 AM
E-mails spark a campus outcry
Date CapturedFriday May 12 2006, 9:22 AM
Science teaching gets weak diversity grade
Date CapturedMonday May 08 2006, 10:39 PM
California Bill Will Require Gay History In Curriculum
Date CapturedWednesday May 03 2006, 10:53 PM
Hispanic students get lesson in college education
Date CapturedSaturday April 29 2006, 7:21 AM
Students gather in praise of public schools
Date CapturedFriday April 28 2006, 8:09 AM
Diversity growing at Texas A&M
Date CapturedThursday April 27 2006, 8:30 AM
Law school verdict's still out: Race vs. ranking
Date CapturedMonday April 24 2006, 11:51 PM
Competition fierce at elite schools for top minority students
Date CapturedMonday April 17 2006, 7:29 AM
School Counselors & School Psychologists: Partners in Promoting Culturally Competent Schools
Date CapturedMonday April 17 2006, 6:01 AM
New York State Governor's Dr. King Leadership Symposium: Teaching Tolerance Through Education
Date CapturedThursday April 06 2006, 1:47 PM
Diversity Spreads Out: Metropolitan Shifts in Hispanic, Asian, and Black Populations Since 2000
Date CapturedMonday March 27 2006, 12:33 PM
by William H. Frey, March 2006. Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program. Analysis of Census Bureau population estimates detailing the distribution of racial and ethnic groups within and across U.S. metropolitan areas since Census 2000 reveals that: Hispanic and Asian populations are spreading out from their traditional metropolitan centers, while the shift of blacks toward the South is accelerating. The Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas contained 23 percent of the nation's Hispanic population in 2004, down from 30 percent in 1990. Of the nation's 361 metropolitan areas, 111 registered declines in white population from 2000 to 2004, with the largest absolute losses occurring in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Diversity Spreads Out: Metropolitan Shifts in Hispanic, Asian, and Black Populations Since 2000
Date CapturedMonday March 27 2006, 11:31 AM



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