May 25, 2012, 12:05 AM
High rates of chronic absence, suspension and poor academic performance signal that more than half of African American male students in the Oakland Unified School District are at risk of dropping out, according to new research. The Urban Strategies Council, an Oakland-based community advocacy...
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May 17, 2012, 12:05 AM
When a scholarly journal published a study this week on the purported existence of "gaydar," the reaction ranged from "no duh" to offended. Just how can someone accurately predict a person's sexuality based on a fleeting glimpse of a photograph? But the new...
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April 23, 2012, 12:05 AM
Tobacco marketing is targeting California's low-income and African American youth, according to researchers who examined advertising throughout the state. Academic researchers funded by the state’s Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program found that there was greater...
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April 11, 2012, 12:05 AM
Racial minorities and students with disabilities are suspended at substantially higher rates than their white and non-disabled peers, according to an analysis of discipline data from nearly 500 California school districts. Researchers said the disparities are a civil rights issue and cause for...
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April 5, 2012, 12:05 AM
To stave off fraud and future Wall Street meltdowns, some reform advocates are pushing for government regulators to become more ethnically diverse. In a study titled "Government That Looks Like America?," The Greenlining Institute found that, for the most part, financial regulators...
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April 3, 2012, 12:05 AM
The National Archives released for the first time yesterday individual records from the 1940 Census – unleashing an online treasure trove of 3.8 million pages eagerly awaited by genealogists and researchers. The country has changed substantially in 72 years: Its population has ballooned...
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March 29, 2012, 12:05 AM
Dozens of school boards in the Central Valley are changing their election systems in response to a state law aimed at increasing minority representation, but much of the rest of the state hasn't budged. Some county boards of education have aggressively pushed for change, spurred on by...
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March 20, 2012, 12:05 AM
California enrolls the most Hispanics in K-12 schools in the country: nearly 3.4 million in 2010, according to an analysis of census data released yesterday by the Pew Hispanic Center. Hispanics made up 51 percent of all K-12 students in the state – the second-highest proportion of...
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March 7, 2012, 12:05 AM
The percentage of California educators reaching retirement age is rising rapidly, while the number of newly credentialed teachers has decreased for the seventh year in a row, new reports show. The findings have important implications for school budgets and staffing, as older educators...
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March 5, 2012, 12:05 AM
Obesity is still on the rise among California students, but after years of prevention measures in schools, the rate is slowing, new research shows. More than 35 percent of students were overweight or obese in 2008, up from one-third in 2003. That's an average annual increase of 0.33...
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March 2, 2012, 12:05 AM
Racial diversity has been growing in Southern California, but it might be reaching its peak, according to a new University of Southern California analysis. As Asian and Latino populations continue booming, cities with significant numbers of multiple races and ethnicities are increasing,...
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February 24, 2012, 12:05 AM
More than a decade after California law banned race-conscious admissions, outreach and financial aid at public universities, the state's most selective public university system has seen a significant impact on its ability to increase enrollments of African American, Latino and American Indian...
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January 20, 2012, 12:05 AM
When it’s 17-year-old Eric Gant’s turn to testify today at an Oakland legislative hearing on the health and welfare of California’s minority men and boys, he will ask for a safe way to get to school. “Students deserve a safe path to school, like an adult wants a safe...
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January 5, 2012, 12:05 AM
If New Year’s resolutions could apply to places, perhaps no place is as worthy of concerted change as the San Joaquin Valley. Home to nearly 4 million people, the nation’s breadbasket is described as “a patchwork pattern of separate and unequal places” in a report by the UC...
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December 5, 2011, 12:05 AM
Htoo Mlar’s son was born in a Thai refugee camp, and inexplicably, he never learned to walk. There weren’t any Western-trained doctors at the camp, so it wasn’t until Mlar’s family – refugees from rural Myanmar, formerly known as Burma – came to Oakland in 2009...
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