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'Acting white my ass'Mon, 08/02/2010 - 00:00Beyond the myths of Black student underperformance ...
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New SAT Study Looks into Racial BiasMon, 06/21/2010 - 10:17New evidence concerning the SAT may bring up old debates about the test being racially biased. Acording to Inside Higher Ed, African American test-takers' scores may be trailing those of their white counterparts not only because of finacial disadvantages, but because the test itself has shown results of differencial scores of various races with the same acedemic abilities. ...
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Black Leaders Leaving Dallas Independent School District Along With StudentsMon, 06/07/2010 - 10:12As the number of black children in Dallas ISD declined over the last decade, the number of black activists closely observing school board meetings has dwindled to a few in the audience, The Dallas Morning News reports. And some leaders of a civil rights group that once battled for equal education in Dallas schools are now urging black parents to send their kids elsewhere. Some say the rising attention to the needs of chil ...
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Black Students' Field Trip Angers Parents In MichiganFri, 05/07/2010 - 08:59USA Today reports a school district in Michigan is defending its intentions after a field trip by African-American elementary students drew complaints from excluded children and their parents. Officials said Wednesday that 30 students from Dicken Elementary School in Ann Arbor met last week with an African-American rocket scientist at the University of Michigan. It was part of a larger effort to help close persistent test-score gaps between black and white students. Dis ...
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Lincoln University Refuses To Give Diplomas To Two Dozen Obese StudentsTue, 11/24/2009 - 15:11According to The Daily Beast, Lincoln University — the nation’s first historically black college in Oxford, Pennsylvania —is refusing to give diplomas to two dozen obese students who ditched a he ...
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