Posts Tagged ‘race’
Low-achieving students don’t get top teachers
STANFORD (US) — A study of a major urban school district reveals that high-achieving students tend to get the best teachers, leaving others to less experienced instructors. Continue…
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:02 - 2 Comments
Top Stories - Apr 22, 2013 10:58 - 0 Comments
In big high schools, race marks social divide
U. MICHIGAN (US) — Students who attend large high schools are less likely to form interracial friendships, new research finds. (more…)
Society & Culture - Mar 13, 2013 15:58 - 1 Comment
Marriage may boost gay couples’ health
MICHIGAN STATE (US) —Legalizing gay marriage could improve same-sex couples’ health, though gay racial minorities may be suffering from a double dose of discrimination. (more…)
Top Stories - Mar 8, 2013 7:26 - 5 Comments
College fails to lower divorce for black women
RUTGERS (US) — A college education is linked to lower divorce rates for white women, but black women are not getting the same benefit, a study shows. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 23, 2013 14:57 - 3 Comments
For gay black men, coming out can feel like failure
RUTGERS (US) — Gay black men face a unique set of challenges and pressures from family and friends when they decide to come out, research shows. (more…)
Society & Culture - Dec 31, 2012 14:38 - 4 Comments
Proud Black teens do better in school
U. PITTSBURGH (US) — African American teenagers perform better academically when their parents instill in them a sense of racial pride. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 30, 2012 15:40 - 0 Comments
Racial bias linked to substance abuse
PURDUE (US) — Blacks who feel mistreated and discriminated against are more likely to abuse alcohol and illegal drugs, a new study reports. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 25, 2012 11:17 - 0 Comments
Obama ‘boost’ fades for some black Americans
WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — Black Americans’ feelings of political empowerment—sparked by Barack Obama’s 2008 election—have faded, particularly among conservatives and born-again Christians. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 22, 2012 11:26 - 0 Comments
Religion’s impact grows for wealthy white voters
CORNELL (US) — Religion’s influence on voter choice intensified between the 1980 and 2008 elections, but only among upper-income white Protestants and Catholics, a new study shows. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 11, 2012 10:35 - 0 Comments
2nd-gen immigrants pull ahead in US, Canada, Australia
U. TORONTO / MCGILL (CAN) —Second-generation Chinese and South Asian immigrants in the US, Canada, and Australia are more successful than many third- and higher-generation whites. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 8, 2012 12:40 - 2 Comments
Youth struggle with alcohol, drugs after detention
NORTHWESTERN (US) — Five years after leaving juvenile detention more than 45 percent of males and nearly 30 percent of females have one or more psychiatric disorders, a recent study shows. (more…)
Society & Culture - Sep 10, 2012 15:01 - 1 Comment
Racial quotas for college put to test in Brazil
EMORY (US) — A racial quota system at one of the leading universities in Brazil raised the proportion of black students from low-income families, without lowering their efforts to succeed. (more…)
Society & Culture - Sep 7, 2012 16:33 - 0 Comments
Even in rural spots, US diversity on the rise
PENN STATE (US) — Since 1980, over nine-tenths of all cities, suburbs, and small towns have become more diverse, and the trend includes rural communities. (more…)
Society & Culture - Aug 30, 2012 11:18 - 0 Comments
Scholarship loss higher for African-American men
U. MISSOURI (US) — African-American men are the most likely to lose state lottery-funded scholarships with academic stipulations, according to a new study. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 17, 2012 10:11 - 0 Comments
For some kids, parent fears mean extra CT scans
UC DAVIS (US) — White children are more likely to receive cranial (head) CT scans in an emergency department following minor head trauma, compared with African-American or Hispanic children, according to new research. (more…)
Society & Culture - Aug 7, 2012 12:02 - 0 Comments
Kids who hear stereotype believe it, and more
NYU / PRINCETON (US) — Hearing generalizations about a group of people, like “boys have short hair,” can lead children to endorse a range of other stereotypes about the group. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jul 17, 2012 16:32 - 1 Comment
For blacks, marriage doesn’t lengthen life
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Marriage doesn’t seem to boost longevity for blacks the way it does for whites, according to a large national study of cohabitating and married couples. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jul 13, 2012 11:33 - 1 Comment
For black youth, types of stress add up
WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — Stress can increase the risk for violent behaviors and depressive symptoms for African-American young adults, according to a new study. (more…)
Top Stories - Jul 2, 2012 10:28 - 13 Comments
For US youth, political action is online
U. CHICAGO (US) — A new survey of US youth offers the most complete picture to date of how young people are using new media to participate in politics. (more…)
