The year California voters approved an affirmative action ban at public universities in the state in 1996, Black and Latino enrollment at the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA fell by 40 percent.
Black students
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HBCUs revamping admissions policies amid affirmative action decision
Last month’s ruling by the high court, which prohibits colleges from considering race during the admissions process, has sent ripples through the academic landscape.
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Lawsuit filed against Harvard’s legacy admissions policy that ‘overwhelming favors’ White students
‘Why are we rewarding children for privileges and advantages accrued by prior generations?’
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WE WIN Institute to launch ‘When Black Students Graduate’ summer program
Stepping into the education gap this summer is the WE WIN “When Black Students Graduate” program, a Black culturally sustaining effort designed to help at least 70 students receive their diplomas.
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Mobile lab takes school to the kids
Harvest Best Academy (HBA) partnered with Summit Academy OIC for an innovative mobile lab dubbed The Beast.
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‘Good trouble’ school principals vow to push back
‘We have systems that are underserving Black, Brown, and Indigenous kids and have been doing so for a very long time, and we’re going to push on that.’
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First Monitors forum targeted achievement gaps
The Monitors Club’s first superintendents’ forum took aim at the achievement gap in public education.
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Black student activists face penalty in college admissions
Back when I taught at a predominantly White, selective liberal arts college, I came across a book called Acting White? Rethinking Race in ‘Post-Racial’ America. In the book, legal scholars Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati argue that in the “post-racial” era, White-controlled organizations prefer to hire “‘good Blacks’ who will think of themselves as people […]
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What summertime means for Black children
Does race also conflate with class, when it comes to summer slide? What does summertime mean for Black children and the parents and caregivers who care for them?