Education – Page 12 – CAHRO – California Association of Human Relations Organizations

Next to complaints relating to law enforcement, the concern for schools and education generates the greatest demand for the attention of human relations commissions. Because school decision making is diffused between boards of education, school administrators, and faculties human rights commissions are usually not able to establish strong working relationships with the education community and special strategies need to be developed.

Outstanding resources and model programs are available that cover just about every facet of education that would be of concern to a commission. Commissions may form education committees to examine specific needs, identify resources and programs, and develop strategies.

Making the Case for Test Optional

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-27T09:13:23+00:00 April 27th, 2018|Education|

Each year, more colleges announce that they are ending requirements that applicants submit SAT and ACT scores — joining hundreds of others in the “test-optional” camp. Just this week, Augsburg University in Minnesota made such a shift. The university’s announcement said that the policy had strong faculty support and was seen as

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New Federal Data Shows How Black Students Are Getting Pushed Out Of School

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-25T08:24:48+00:00 April 25th, 2018|Education|

Black students and students with disabilities routinely receive harsher punishments at school than their peers. But the Education Department is considering eliminating civil rights guidance designed to stymie these disparities ― even as data released Tuesday illustrates the scope of the problem.

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After blackface incident, minority students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo say they don’t feel welcome

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-25T08:22:46+00:00 April 25th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Aaliyah Ramos was walking through the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus last year when a prospective student approached her.

Ramos was the only black person, the young woman said, that she and her mother had seen that day. They asked about the

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Blackface is free speech but anti-Bush tweet is not at California university

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-23T09:39:18+00:00 April 23rd, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

When a white student at California State University was caught this month wearing blackface, administrators had a clear message: it was racist, but “protected by free speech”.

Days later, when a professor tweeted that the late Barbara Bush was a “racist”, the university’s tone was different: the

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Cal Poly is the whitest public university in California — by a lot

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-23T09:37:45+00:00 April 23rd, 2018|Education|

Cal Poly has the least racially diverse student population among all public universities in California, according to enrollment data provided by the CSU and UC systems.

And it’s not close.

Read more in the San Luis Obispo Tribune.

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Racial bias in campus discipline: When will universities look in the mirror?

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-23T09:25:33+00:00 April 23rd, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

A new federal analysis of data on how students are disciplined in K-12 schools found that black children were far more likely than their white peers to suffer consequences for their actions in 2013-14, and the report noted that “implicit base” may be a cause.

Such K-12 data is routinely collected and analyzed

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Flawed Judgment in Use of Force Against Students?

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-19T09:44:28+00:00 April 19th, 2018|Education, Police & Community|

During a Harvard University student’s arrest by Cambridge police for running down a street naked last week, he was tackled and punched repeatedly in the stomach, an act the institution’s president and other local officials deemed “disturbing.”

It’s one in a series of incidents over the last seven months in which the public

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Study: Violent Behaviors, Weapon Carrying Down Among Black Youth

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-19T09:41:25+00:00 April 19th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

Violent behaviors and weapon carrying have decreased among African-American adolescents, but homicide rates continue to rise, according to a new report from Ball State University.

“Violent Behaviors, Weapon Carrying, and Firearm Homicide Trends in African American Adolescents, 2001–2015” is the first study to assess violent behaviors in African-American youth over an extended period, the university said.

“In

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Racist fliers spark outrage at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-19T09:07:55+00:00 April 19th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Soon after Neal MacDougall arrived on the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus Tuesday, the professor noticed university police standing outside a restroom near his office. A racial slur against African Americans had been scrawled in red marker on a stall wall.

Later,

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When Racism Roils a Campus, Colleges Respond. Will Students Be Satisfied?

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-04-18T08:56:59+00:00 April 18th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Colleges have been besieged by one racist incident after another in the past two years, and they have spent that time developing a common strategy for dealing with the immediate fallout. One mainstay: Respond publicly.

But what determines whether that response will resonate with aggrieved students?

The best predictor may be how satisfied students already are with

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