July 5, 2012, 12:05 AM
Scarlette Kim woke up on the morning of June 15 to an email announcing a policy she had long been waiting for: The Obama administration would stop deporting immigrants like her who came to the United States illegally as young children. "I was ecstatic," said Kim, who will be a junior...
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June 29, 2012, 12:05 AM
California high schools that serve largely Latino or African American students are failing them as pathways to college, according to a new report by a statewide education policy, research and advocacy organization. Just 10 percent of high schools that serve primarily Latino students have above...
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June 14, 2012, 12:05 AM
Obese children face risks to their emotional and social well-being that can harm their academic performance, new research suggests. The study, published today in the journal Child Development, found obese elementary school children performed worse on math tests than their peers...
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June 7, 2012, 12:05 AM
Californians who are Asian Indian or Taiwanese are among the most highly educated in the state, recently released census data shows. Among both groups, about 7 out of 10 people ages 25 and older hold at least a bachelor's degree. On average, 3 out of 10 Californians have earned a bachelor...
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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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