By Kimberly Hefling and Jesse J. Holland | Originally Published at Associated Press. Yahoo News. March 21, 2014 WASHINGTON (AP) — Black students are more likely to be suspended from U.S. public schools — even as tiny preschoolers. The racial disparities in American education, from access to [...]
(AP Photo/ Jose F. Moreno) By Steven Hsieh | Originally Published at The Nation. March 21, 2014 Comprehensive data released Friday by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights offers a striking glance at the extent of racial inequality plaguing the nation’s education system. Analysts [...]
A student performed a monologue in March in which he describes how he was misidentified as the help at a cocktail party he attended in the play, "I, Too, Am Harvard," in Cambridge, Mass. Credit; Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times By Tanzina Vega | Originally [...]
By Philip Bump | Originally Published at The Wire. March 10, 2014 8:04PM ET Asked to identify the age of a young boy that committed a felony, participants in a study routinely overestimated the age of black children far more than they did white kids. Worse: Cops [...]
Photograph by Matthew Hinton | Kelly and Noah Fischer Originally Published at Southern Poverty Law Center. | March 12, 2014 Kelly Fischer’s hopes were quickly dashed last fall. She was attending a High School Fair in New Orleans, a chance for parents to meet representatives from the [...]
By Sarah Fuss | Originally Published at TakePart. March 12, 2014 Dontadrian Bruce is the kind of kid the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice might have had in mind when they released the new school disciplinary guidelines in January. The new federal approach urges schools to [...]
Photograph; Hill Street Studios/Getty By Al Baker | Originally Published at The New York Times. March 11, 2014 Seven black students have been offered a chance to start classes at Stuyvesant High School in September, two fewer than received offers last year. For Hispanics, the number has [...]
Will children eat? In one-fifth of American households children are food insecure; thus, the question is pressing. Our young do not have access to food that sustains them. Nor have our nations assistance programs provided enough. And still, funds are cut, and cut, and cut. Private food [...]
Kindergarten students in Kansas City, Kan., run during a physical education class at Frank Rushton Elementary School, which has a high percentage of poor and at-risk children. (John Hanna / Associated Press / January 9, 2014) Disparities in the public funding of school districts violate the state [...]
