News tagged with desegregation
Post-Racial? NC State Expert Weighs In On the Current State of Race Relations
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many pundits professed the dawn of a “post-racial” era following the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Socioeconomic Desegregation Alone Is Not Effective in Improving Classroom Performance
Although past research has linked academic achievement gains to socioeconomic desegregation in schools, a new analysis reveals some hidden academic and psychological risks of integrating low-income students in schools with ...
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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From V-2 rocket to moon landing
He was a handsome, charismatic, brilliant, onetime member of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party and SS paramilitary force. He also was a hero in the United States hailed for helping to land the first man on the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Study: growing up in bad neighborhoods has a devastating impact
Growing up in a poor neighborhood significantly reduces the chances that a child will graduate from high school, according to a study published in the October issue of the American Sociological Review. And, the longer a chil ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Black History Month's sobering news: MLK dream alive for few, says researcher
In the past 20 years, Martin Luther King's dream of the day when "little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls" through school desegregation has not been realized for ...
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Feb 22, 2011 |
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Segregation in charter schools, research shows
When the charter school system was first proposed and developed two decades ago, it was heralded, in part, as a promising means of achieving classroom diversity. However, the incidence of racial isolation in those schools ...
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Feb 18, 2011 |
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The more you know a place, the more likely your memory will play spatial tricks
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many suburbanites remember a time when they were once city dwellers. For a time many returned to the city for dining, cultural and entertainment purposes. But over time the suburbs and "the ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 17, 2011 |
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Study: Teachers choose schools according to student race
A study forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that high-quality teachers tend to leave schools that experience inflows of black students. According to the study's author, C. Kirabo Jackson (Cornell Univer ...
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May 27, 2009 |
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Research links diversity with increased sales revenue and profits, more customers
Workplace diversity is among the most important predictors of a business' sales revenue, customer numbers and profitability, according to research to be published in the April issue of the American Sociological Review.
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Mar 31, 2009 |
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UGA research explores little-known chapter in college desegregation
Many of the battles to desegregate Southern colleges and universities were fought in public, but efforts to desegregate the standardized testing that is often a prerequisite to admission have, until now, received little attention. ...
Jan 09, 2009 |
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Highway system drives city population declines, says Brown economist
Construction of the American highway system in the late 20th century played a key role in causing population declines in central cities, according to new research by Brown University economist Nathaniel Baum-Snow published ...
Jun 13, 2007 |
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