Tag Archives: Race in Schools

No Apology From Gwinnett Superintendent, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia school superintendent says blacks are a discipline problem.

DC will try program that didn’t work in New York.

Paying blacks, Hispanics to pass AP classes doesn’t improve scores.

Blacks and American Indians twice as likely as to be paddled as whites.

90 percent immigrants; 58 percent dropout rate.

White faculty “struggle to connect” with black students.

Only one non-Hawaiian has ever attended the Kamehameha Schools.

Black? Underachieving? Skip a day!

It’s class size, poverty, resources, expectations. Ummm—anything else?

In California, black dropout rate is 41.6 percent; 30.3 percent for Hispanics.

Prestigious magnet school makes it easier for foreigners to get in.

Asians outnumber whites at Northern Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

School administrators everywhere find it hard to locate gifted minority students.

Racial achievement gap “nation’s most pressing civil rights issue.”

Racial “balance” is a thing of the past.

Racial Conflicts Surface at Berkeley School, Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, California)

Black parents upset that school won’t take “cultural learning differences” into account.

S.F. Schools Take On Racism, Classism, San Francisco Chronicle

Another hare-brained scheme to close the achievement gap.

History replaced by Hispanic propaganda and myth.

No more student-teaching in KC’s suburban schools.

Blacks, Hispanics “not getting the education they deserve.”

Sent Home: The Suspension Gap, Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul)

Blacks suspended 6 times as often as whites.

Bachelor’s and Beyond, Houston Chronicle

Nigerians top racial group in percentage that hold college and graduate degrees.

Teacher says “white kids” would have attacked Hispanic student.

Black Kids on Buses May Slip onto MPS Lore, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Milwaukee ends forced busing; $57 million per year spent on a failed policy.

Catastrophe in Kansas City, AR Classic Article

A colossal failure in forced equality.

Principal wanted to meet with Hispanics separately, too.

Mostly-minority school pays to increase enrollment in AP classes.

Moral-character data on race said to be “potentially damaging and hurtful.”

Courses dropped because non-whites don’t take them.

FCPS Cite ‘Morality Gap’, Fairfax (Virginia) Connection

Black and Hispanic students don’t show “sound moral character.”

In some cities, only one-third of students graduate.

Racial Disparity Follows Schools, The State (Columbia, South Carolina)

What happens when parents can choose where their children go to school.

For “urban youth” violence is a “mental health issue.”

But number of bilingual students increases.

School officials “convinced” that more black students graduate than study says.

Parents say they will incur huge debts rather than send children to mixed schools.

New approach: paint the place; fire the teachers; keep the students.

Latest desperate effort to raise black scores.

Except for blacks.

Resegregation of U.S. Schools Deepening, Christian Science Monitor

More than half of Charlotte elementary schools are either 90 percent black or 90 percent white.

What’s It Worth To Study? $8/Hour, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Object is to see whether paying students to study improves classroom skills.

High-school senior says it’s already “too much of an easy ride.”

Too many gifted students in Seattle Public Schools are white.

Maoism alive and well in Glendale, Arizona.

Feds propose reports of graduation rates by race.

Racism Growing on Campuses, Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader

And the solution? More diversity “initiatives.”

Bar committee refuses to turn over data.

School Integration Is Not the Answer, St. Petersburg (Florida) Times

Self-segregation: “the most natural thing people do.”

Puzzling Racial Gap, Hartford (Connecticut) Courant

School board member: “Race has nothing to do with it, absolutely zero.”

Blacks are 5 percent of students but 22 percent of the suspensions.