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The Nation’s Most Segregated Schools Aren’t Where You’d Think They’d Be

 

“NEW YORK — The nation’s most segregated schools aren’t in the deep south — they’re in New York, according to a report released Tuesday by the University of California, Los Angeles’ Civil Rights Project.

 

That means that in 2009, black and Latino students in New York “had the highest concentration in intensely-segregated public schools,” in which white students made up less than 10 percent of enrollment and “the lowest exposure to white students,” wrote John Kucsera, a UCLA researcher, and Gary Orfield, a UCLA professor and the project’s director. “For several decades, the state has been more segregated for blacks than any Southern state, though the South has a much higher percent of African American students,” the authors wrote. The report, “New York State’s Extreme School Segregation,” looked at 60 years of data up to 2010, from various demographics and other research.

 

There’s also a high level of “double segregation,” Orfield said in an interview, as students are increasingly isolated not only by race, but also by income: the typical black or Latino student in New York state attends a school with twice as many low-income students as their white peers. That concentration of poverty brings schools disadvantages that mixed-income schools often lack: health issues, mobile populations, entrenched violence and teachers who come from the least selective training programs. “They don’t train kids to work in a society that’s diverse by race and class,” he said. “There’s a systematically unequal set of demands on those schools.””

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

What are we going to do to fix it America?

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Everyone and Their Mother, and Apple, Want Emojis to Be More Diverse

Across mobile, and especially in iOS, people use emojis to express deep and complicated emotions. But the lack of diversity in the human-related emojis makes it hard to accurately represent life through these pictograms. For the most part (see above), they either depict white people/disembodied white hands, or the traditional…

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“Suspicion Nation” – Addressing the Critics; Re: The Gun

 

“Lisa Bloom writes in her book,

 

“On a very dark, rainy night, Trayvon saw through Zimmerman’s body to a gun holstered behind him, concealed inside his pants?  Did Trayvon have X-ray vision?”

 

“What shocked me most of all was that the prosecution had failed raise this point at trial.  Not in the opening statement.  Not in the questioning of any of their witnesses.  Not in cross-examination of defense witnesses.”

 
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Tavis Smiley – Week Eleven 2014

Tavis smileyDaniel Beaty – “Transforming Pain to Power”   Daniel Beaty was brought up in a world of pain. The defining features of life in his Dayton, OH home were incarceration and drug addiction. But after hearing Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Beaty dared to dream himself—and came to realize that the pain he suffered was an avenue, not an obstacle, to his dreams. Today, he is an award-winning actor, writer, singer, and motivational speaker, and he shares his story of how he harnessed the power of pain in a new motivational memoir, “Transforming Pain to Power: Unlock Your Unlimited…

 

Tim Padgett – “What My Talks With Hugo Taught Me About Chavismo in Venezuela”  The oil-rich nation of Venezuela has been embroiled since mid-February in its worst turmoil in a decade, as angry citizens have taken to the streets to protest poor economic conditions. The chaos began nearly a year after former president Hugo Chavez died of cancer. Tim Padgett, Americas editor for WLRN in Miami, covered Chavez for more than 20 years. In his recent piece, “What My Talks With Hugo Taught Me About Chavismo in Venezuela”, Padgett reflects on his years covering the charismatic…

 

Emily Parker – “Now I Know Who My Comrades Are”  In 2011, Egyptians took to the streets of Cairo to protest that country’s authoritarian government. It took just 18 days for Hosni Mubarak’s regime to fall, once ordinary Egyptians were mobilized, largely by connecting online and through social media. Emily Parker, a former State Department policy adviser, looks at how the Internet is transforming lives of regular citizens living in authoritarian regimes in her new book, “Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet…

 

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“Manhattan was sold for $24”

 

““Manhattan was sold for $24″ worth of “trinkets” or “glass beads” by Native Americans to the Dutch. It is something taught to most American schoolchildren by age eight. That was true in 1911, in 1949 and in 2009. The $24 is never adjusted for inflation.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Click through to read the whole article by Abagond, based on “Teaching What Really Happened” (2010) by James Loewen, “The Island at the Center of the World” (2004) by Russell Shorto,newnetherlandinstitute.org (2013), Wikipedia (2014)

 

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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.

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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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“Suspicion Nation” – Addressing the Critics; Re: Maddy

 

“… Maddy, I can understand you more now as a person, but I still don’t like that you changed your vote. There, I said it.  Does that mean that I hate you?  No.  Does it mean I have no respect for you as a person?  No. If I were to meet you, I would want to sit and hear about everything you experienced in Seminole County.  I think we might have something in common moving away from our hometown within our hometown, to find that people in other parts of this great nation are not welcoming to “outsiders.”

 

I would tell you that our brains process what our guts tell us.  Example?  When you were mocked and demeaned, did you first feel it in your gut, or your brain?  It took your brain time to discern that the women were not laughing with you, but at you. If your gut hadn’t processed their motivation, your brain would not have discerned it.

So, what is the problem that the anti-Trayvon Martin camp has with Maddy and Lisa Bloom’s interview of her?  They allege that Maddy told Reverend Sharpton on his Politics Nation program, that she had not been bullied.

 

Thankfully, that interview is on Youtube.  Reverend Sharpton said that there are those who question what happened in the jury room.  Did people pressure people?  Were people bullying Maddy?  He asked her directly, “Were you bullied, Maddy?” Maddy hesitated.  She started her answer with “we.” She stopped again, and when she continued stated, “I can’t say I was bullied.”

 

As she continues, she goes back and repeats what she has always contended; i.e., that the way the law was read to her, she could not say that Zimmerman was guilty.

 

What I see in Maddy’s interview on Politics Nation, and her interview with Lisa Bloom, is that Maddy speaks of two distinct times.  She tells Lisa Bloom what happened BEFORE the jury deliberated and it was at that time when she was bullied.   By the time that the jury deliberated, two of the jurors had already re-defined Maddy in her person to believe that she was not educated and intelligent enough to understand anything presented to the jury at trial, neither the jury instructions, nor the law to in which to apply the facts.  By the time of jury deliberations, there was no further need to bully Maddy.  She was already intimidated…”

 
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