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The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...
Racial diversity in United States schools is the representation of different racial or ethnic groups in American schools.The institutional practice of slavery, and later segregation, in the United States prevented certain racial groups from entering the school system until midway through the 20th century, when Brown v.
The statistics of bachelor's degrees among races and ethnicities in America. There have been reports as of last year stating that there have not been much improvements of marginalized communities going to college because that increase is ever so slight. [19] African- American enrollments are down 22%; Caucasian enrollments are down 7%
A daily look at legal news and the business of law: How Much Can Schools Consider Race in Admissions? In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Grutter v. Bollinger that race could be a "plus factor ...
The education of African Americans and some other minorities lags behind those of other U.S. ethnic groups, such as White Americans and Asian Americans, as reflected by test scores, grades, urban high school graduation rates, rates of disciplinary action, and rates of conferral of undergraduate degrees.
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday a chance to further restrict efforts to promote racial diversity in education, turning away a case over whether criteria that had been used to ...
SOURCE: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, California State University-Long Beach (2014, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013).Read our methodology here.. HuffPost and The Chronicle examined 201 public D-I schools from 2010-2014.
Seattle School District No. 1 limited school districts' ability to take race into account during the school assignment process, the ruling did not prohibit racial considerations altogether. According to the UCLA Civil Rights Project, a school district may consider race when using: "site selection of new schools; drawing attendance zones with ...