250 research outputs found
Review of \u3cem\u3eBoth Sides Now: The Story of School Desegregation\u27s Graduates.\u3c/em\u3e Amy Stuart Wells, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Anita Revilla, and Awo Korantemaa Ayamda. Reviewed by Kala Chakradher.
No full textBook review of Amy Stuart Wells, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Anita Revilla and Awo Korantemaa Ayamda, Both Sides Now: The Story of School Desegregation\u27s Graduates. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009. $24.95 papercover
The distribution of discrimination in immigrant earnings - evidence from Britain 1974-1993
No full textThis paper uses the General Household Survey data for the UK to study earnings discrimination between natives and migrants. The key result is that the main source of discrimination is ethnicity rather than migrant status per se. This paper differs from the conventional focus in studies of earnings discrimination, which focus on mean wage differences. In contrast we study the entire distribution of the wage gap, and incorporate distributionally sensitive measures of the wage gap reflecting different levels of aversion to discrimination. Our results are consistent with previous studies for the UK that find that non-white immigrants are the most widely discriminated in terms of their labour market returns. Moreover this discrimination on the basis of colour is also present in the sub-sample of natives.
Seeing Past the “Colorblind” Myth of Education Policy
No full textThis policy brief presents the most significant evidence-based critique of ostensibly “colorblind” education policies by highlighting their relationship to past and present racial/ethnic inequality and their failure to address the rapidly changing demographics of our school-age population, which could be considered an asset if we were not “blind” to it. The author argues that even when education policies are “colorblind” on the surface, they interact with school systems and residential patterns in which race is a central factor in deciding where students go to school, what resources and curricula they have access to, whether they are understood and appreciated by their teachers and classmates, and how they are categorized across academic programs. Such policies are also at odds with a multi-racial and ethnic society in which a growing number of parents and educators see the potential educational benefits of paying attention to diversity and difference as a pedagogical tool. The author recommends that policymakers address race-conscious policies, practices and conditions that perpetuate segregation and inequality while simultaneously tapping into the changing racial attitudes of Americans by supporting racially diverse schools.</p
Seeing Past the “Colorblind” Myth of Education Policy
No full textThis policy brief presents the most significant evidence-based critique of ostensibly “colorblind” education policies by highlighting their relationship to past and present racial/ethnic inequality and their failure to address the rapidly changing demographics of our school-age population, which could be considered an asset if we were not “blind” to it. The author argues that even when education policies are “colorblind” on the surface, they interact with school systems and residential patterns in which race is a central factor in deciding where students go to school, what resources and curricula they have access to, whether they are understood and appreciated by their teachers and classmates, and how they are categorized across academic programs. Such policies are also at odds with a multi-racial and ethnic society in which a growing number of parents and educators see the potential educational benefits of paying attention to diversity and difference as a pedagogical tool. The author recommends that policymakers address race-conscious policies, practices and conditions that perpetuate segregation and inequality while simultaneously tapping into the changing racial attitudes of Americans by supporting racially diverse schools.</p
The public relations industry unspun
No full textContents: PR industry -- Roots in conflict -- Not local, not news -- Third party advocacy -- Selling wars -- Controlling damage and managing crisis -- Silencing debate.Tracks the development of the public relations (PR) industry from early efforts to win popular American support for World War I to the role of crisis management in controlling damage to corporate images. The video analyzes the tools public relations professionals use to shift our perceptions, including as an example the coordinated PR campaign to slip genetically engineered food past public scrutiny. Features commentary by PR Watch founder John Stauber, author of the book of the same name, as well as by cultural scholars Mark Crispin Miller and Stuart Ewen
Education: culture, economy and society
No full textEducation aims to establish the social study of education at the centre of political and sociological debate about post industrial societies. It looks at major changes which have taken place in the late 20th century and at educational policy
Profiles of the 10 most intriguing people in Maine, including Fritz Grobe and
No full textProfiles of the 10 most intriguing people in Maine, including Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz of Buckfield\u27s Oddfellow Theater, whose Diet Coke and Mentos geysers brought them fame; Dr. Amy Arnett of Unity College, who won a Fullbright Scholarship Award to study the ant lion in Slovenia; Peter Carlisle, the Portland sports agent who represents Olympian swimmer Michael Phelps; Jennifer Norbert, the Cumberland County assistant district attorney who worked on the high profile Long Lake boating accident case; Vinalhaven artist Robert Indiana, who created the LOVE, and now, the HOPE icon; author Jaed Coffin of Portland, whose Chant To Soothe Wild Elephants, is earning rave reviews; Christian Tietje, part-time Wells resident and owner of Four Vines Winery in California; Dr. Bernard Lown, inventor of the defibrillator and Nobel-prize winner, who fled the Holocaust and grew up in Lewiston; and author and fisherman Linda Greenlaw of Isle au Haut
Wells, Amy Stuart, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Awo Korantemaa Atanda, and Anita Tijerina Revilla, Tackling Racial Segregation One Policy at a Time: Why School Desegregation Only Went So Far, Teachers College Record, 107(Sepember, 2005), 2141-2177.
No full textReports on a 5-year case study of six racially diverse high schools from the late 1970s; describes their curricular and organizational methods of school integration, the external societal factors that influenced the effects of these efforts, and the views of graduates about the long-term impact of their school experiences
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