4 posts tagged with schools and race (View popular tags)

Segregation. Elimination. Two different accounts of bizarro things happening in USA schools. [via]
posted on Apr 17, 2006 - View this thread

African-American == Black? Several high-school students at a predominantly white (well, predominantly NOT black) Nebraska high school were disciplined for a campaign to get 16-year-old student Trevor Richards awarded the school's annual "Distinguished African-American Student" award. Richards is from South Africa, now lives in America (not sure if he's a citizen, the CNN story isn't clear), but here's the catch: he's white.
posted on Jan 23, 2004 - View this thread

Cal Professor John Ogbu thinks he knows why rich black kids are failing in school. Nobody wants to hear it.
posted on May 23, 2003 - View this thread