Education

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Students learning English benefit more in two-language instructional programs than English immersion, Stanford research finds

A partnership between the Stanford Graduate School of Education and San Francisco Unified School District examines the merits of four approaches to teaching English language learners.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

My daughter has been in dual-immersion (Spanish / English) since kindergarten. She is now in 4th grade and reading English at an 8th grade level.

 

Most bachelors degrees require a second language. It is easier to learn the second language while young. It is an injustice and a frustration to children to delay until college the learning of a second language.

See on news.stanford.edu

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Student Sues California University For $5 Million, Alleges Horrifying Racial Abuse

 

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When there can be this level of bullying at San Jose State University, a bastion of progressive thought, that should be a bellwether for everyone nationwide,” Douglas told Reuters.

 

“I want there to be a conversation started by the filing of this claim… there are issues of racial intolerance, of bullying and of harassment running rampant in universities and colleges across this nation,” he said.

University spokeswoman Patricia Harris declined to comment on the claim, which named as defendants the university, its president Mohammad Qayoumi, a school housing adviser and others.

Authorities said four white roommates taunted and harassed the student, who was 17 at the time, by displaying Nazi imagery and a Confederate flag in their dormitory and attempting to hang a U-shape bicycle lock around his neck.

 

The roommates, also students, referred to him as “three-fifths” or “fraction,” the claim said, in an apparent slur relating to the fact African American slaves counted as only three fifths of a person under an 18th century agreement between U.S. states to determine state population sizes.

 

The roommates barricaded him in his room, and threatened him with a golf club when they tried to locate a missing pet goldfish, the claim said. The harassment lasted from at least September 23 to October 31, 2013, it said.

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See on www.businessinsider.com

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Principal Fired For Trying To Keep Students From Speaking Spanish

 

“A principal who allegedly prohibited students from speaking Spanish will lose her job, the Texas press reports.

 

Administrators voted Monday night to discontinue a job contract for Amy Lacey, principal of Hempstead Middle School, who had been on paid administrative leave since December after reportedly using the intercom to tell students that speaking Spanish is forbidden on school grounds.

 

“When you start banning aspects of ethnicity or cultural identity, it sends the message that the child is not wanted,” Augstin Pinedo, director of the League of United Latin American Citizens Region 18 told the Houston Chronicle. ”

 
See on www.huffingtonpost.com

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A Campus More Colorful Than Reality: Beware That College Brochure

The glossy images on admissions brochures don’t always paint an accurate picture of campus diversity — which could lead some students to show up at very different colleges than they’d imagined.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Click through to listen to the NPR report.

See on www.npr.org

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When Images Of Diversity Don’t Match Reality

 

“The majority of schools, Pippert reports, “provided images of diversity” that were “significantly different than the actual student body.” In fact, the whiter the student body at a college, the more often images of minorities were featured in its publications.”

 
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I, too, am Oxford.

 

“Our project was inspired by the recent ‘I, too, am Harvard’ initiative. The Harvard project resonated with a sense of communal disaffection that students of colour at Oxford have with the University. The sharing of the Buzzfeed article ‘I, too, am Harvard’ on the online Oxford based race forum, ‘Skin Deep’ led to students quickly self organising a photoshoot within the same week. A message that was consistently reaffirmed throughout the day was that students in their daily encounters at Oxford are made to feel different and Othered from the Oxford community.Hopefully this project will demonstrate that despite there being a greater number of students of colour studying at Oxford now than there has ever been before, there are still issues that need to be discussed. In participating in ‘I, Too, Am Oxford,’ students of colour are demanding that a discussion on race be taken seriously and that real institutional change occur.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

An Oxford Tumblr with quotes of microaggressions and negative assumptions.

See on itooamoxford.tumblr.com

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Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 1 – An improper comparison

  This post is broken into two parts for the sake of length: Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 1 – An improper comparison Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 2 – In support…

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

My question is, how can we get more students to go to college?

 

What do we as a culture (U.S. culture) need to provide to our children so they can attend college?

See on reappropriate.co

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HOW WE HAVE FAILED OUR WHITE STUDENTS (Part 2)

 

This article covers:

 

  • We only talk about inclusion and not exclusion
  • White students have not been taught how to emotionally connect or to be aware when they are disconnected
  • ‘privilege of numbness’

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

I love the straightforward honesty of Lee Mun Wah

See on www.stirfryseminars.com