Tag: Discrimination: Page 68

Native Americans

Tribe settles with California school district over discrimination claims

Christine Wilson remembers the way the father of her children, an American Indian of the Paiute tribe, was picked on at school in Bishop, the small mountain town where they grew up. But watching their daughters get roughed up and suspended unfairly told her it was time for real change, she said.

September 17, 2007

STEM

A Tale of Two Indias

India’s Supreme Court recently upheld a stay against a quota system in higher education for historically oppressed Indians. Upper- and lower-caste Indians are at odds over the ruling.

September 13, 2007

STEM

A Tale of Two Indias

India’s Supreme Court recently upheld a stay against a quota system in higher education for historically oppressed Indians. Upper- and lower-caste Indians are at odds over the ruling.

September 5, 2007

Students

Group Files Complaint Against UT Over Race-Conscious Admissions

AUSTIN, Texas A legal group that fights against racial preferences in schools and workplaces has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education about the University of Texas at Austin’s use of race in its undergraduate admissions process.

July 23, 2007

Home

NAACP calls for federal probe of racist e-mails sent to troopers, police probe under way

HARTFORD Conn. The state chapter of the NAACP called Thursday for a federal investigation of possible civil rights violations after members of the Connecticut State Police received racist e-mails.

July 22, 2007

Students

Perspectives: Abandoning Brown and ‘[Race]ing’ Backwards on K-12 Education

The recent, well-publicized U.S. Supreme Court desegregation cases make it much tougher for school districts to achieve racial diversity and eliminate racially isolated public school systems. In addressing the use of race by Seattle and Louisville school districts in student assignments, Chief Justice John Roberts declared, “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

July 18, 2007

Students

New Mexico Educators Won’t Face Federal Sanctions for School Racism Project

ALBUQUERQUE N.M. School leaders in a southern New Mexico district will not face federal sanctions for allowing a high school project on racism in which students posted signs reading “Whites Only” and “People of Color” above water faucets, federal officials said.

July 17, 2007

Students

New Mexico School District Will Implement Policy Against Racial Harassment

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights says the Truth or Consequences school district must ensure an educational environment free of racial discrimination after a Black student complained about a high school racism project.

July 17, 2007

Students

In Education We Trust – The Education Trust

Kati Haycock, director of The Education Trust, has released a new report full of data that she hopes will support efforts to improve the quality of public education.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

At Presstime

JACKSON TO HEAD RENSSELAER

July 14, 2007

Home

Civil Rights Efforts Get Budget Increases

Civil fights advocates are praising the recent 1999 budget agreement for providing federal agencies, including the U.S. Education Department (ED), with more funds to fight discrimination.

July 14, 2007

Home

The Quest for a Better Search Process

Forget the “dysfunctional family.” Few things today can be more dysfunctional than the academic search committee. These bodies contribute, not only to mediocrity and the decline in the university, but to the exclusion and discrimination of various underrepresented groups of highly qualified persons — namely people of color, people with disabilities, and women.

July 14, 2007