For African-Americans and Latinos, few California high schools offer path to college: report | The Raw Story

For African-Americans and Latinos, few California high schools offer path to college: report | The Raw Story

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-average graduation and college-going rates for Latinos. The same is true for African Americans at 24 percent of high schools serving the largest proportions of African American students, the Education Trust–West found. Many students in both populations are low-income.

The college-going rate among Latino and African American students who graduated high school in 2010 lagged behind that of white and Asian students by 20 and more than 30 percentage points, respectively. The estimate, released last week, found 45 percent of Latinos and 46 percent of African Americans in the class of 2010 enrolled in college.

Researchers analyzed high school graduation rates for students who earned diplomas in 2010 and estimated their college-going rates using data from 2009, the first year such information was available. Their findings, they said, were disturbing.

Source: The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/1gfir)

 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-average graduation and college-going rates for Latinos. The same is true for African Americans at 24 percent of high schools serving the largest proportions of African American students, the Education Trust–West found. Many students in both populations are low-income.

The college-going rate among Latino and African American students who graduated high school in 2010 lagged behind that of white and Asian students by 20 and more than 30 percentage points, respectively. The estimate, released last week, found 45 percent of Latinos and 46 percent of African Americans in the class of 2010 enrolled in college.

Researchers analyzed high school graduation rates for students who earned diplomas in 2010 and estimated their college-going rates using data from 2009, the first year such information was available. Their findings, they said, were disturbing.

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-average graduation and college-going rates for Latinos. The same is true for African Americans at 24 percent of high schools serving the largest proportions of African American students, the Education Trust–West found. Many students in both populations are low-income.

The college-going rate among Latino and African American students who graduated high school in 2010 lagged behind that of white and Asian students by 20 and more than 30 percentage points, respectively. The estimate, released last week, found 45 percent of Latinos and 46 percent of African Americans in the class of 2010 enrolled in college.

Researchers analyzed high school graduation rates for students who earned diplomas in 2010 and estimated their college-going rates using data from 2009, the first year such information was available. Their findings, they said, were disturbing.

Source: The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/1gfir)

Keeping the McNair Ph.D. Pipeline Flowing with Talent

Keeping the McNair Ph.D. Pipeline Flowing with Talent: Though many within his social circle growing up went straight into the workforce after high school, Dr. Christopher L. Howell, an electronics engineer for the U.S. Army’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, took a different path.

Howell, 41, says he planned to work after he earned his four-year degree. But then his professors at the University of Memphis shined light on a higher education path that goes even further. Specifically, they referred him to the school’s Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program.

Subsequently, in 2010, Howell became the first African-American to graduate from the University of Memphis with a doctoral degree in electrical engineering, according to Deborah Northcross, former director of the school’s McNair program.

Report: U.S. Campuses Growing More International

Report: U.S. Campuses Growing More International: American colleges and universities have made significant gains in becoming more international in scope, but the progress has hardly been universal and varies by sector, a new survey released Wednesday by the American Council on Education, or ACE, has found.

Officials at ACE say the survey — titled “Mapping Internationalization on U.S. Campuses: 2012 Edition” — identified several trends that are encouraging but also turned up some, such as the long and steady decline in foreign language instruction, that give reason for concern.

“The overall picture is quite mixed,” Patti McGill Peterson, presidential adviser for global initiatives at ACE, said during a teleconference Wednesday around the release of the report.

Newsroom Diversity: An Online Paradigm Shift

Newsroom Diversity: An Online Paradigm Shift: While the long-predicted downturn among U.S. news publications is taking its toll on journalists everywhere, minorities in the news industry are impacted more than most. Total newsroom employment at daily newspapers declined 2.4 percent in 2011 while the loss in newsroom positions among minorities was 5.7 percent, according to a recently released census by the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) and the Center for Advanced Social Research at the Missouri School of Journalism.

ASNE has conducted its Newsroom Employment Census of professional full-time journalists since 1978. Despite this year’s loss in newsroom positions, the decline in jobs that began in 2006-07 appears to be stabilizing, according to the census report.

Rude or Polite, New York Police Follow No Script in Stop-and-Frisks - NYTimes.com

Rude or Polite, New York Police Follow No Script in Stop-and-Frisks - NYTimes.com: Most of the time, the officers swoop in, hornetlike, with a command to stop: “Yo! You, come here. Get against the wall.”

They batter away with questions, sometimes laced with profanity, racial slurs and insults: “Where’s the weed?” “Where’s the guns?” 

The officers tell those who ask why they have been stopped to shut up, using names like immigrant, old man or “bro.”

Next comes the frisk, the rummaging through pockets and backpacks. Then they are gone. 

Other times, the officers are polite, their introductions almost gentle. “Hey, how’s it going?” “Can you step over here, sir?” “We’d like to talk to you.” 

The questions are probing, authoritative, but less accusatory. “What are you doing here?” “Do you live here?” “Can I see some identification, please?” During the pat-down, they ask, “Do you have anything on you?” They nudge further: “You don’t mind if I search you, do you?” They explain that someone of a matching description robbed a store a few days ago, or that the stop is a random one, part of a program in a high-crime area. Then they apologize for the stop and say the person is free to go.

Mother, daughter plead guilty to civil rights violation in noose incident - baltimoresun.com

Mother, daughter plead guilty to civil rights violation in noose incident - baltimoresun.com: A mother and daughter from Middle River have pleaded guilty to a civil rights violation for their involvement in an incident in 2010 in which a dead raccoon was hung by a noose from an African family's Middle River porch, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Dena Whedlee, 42, and her daughter Brittany Whedlee, 20, admitted to encouraging their co-conspirators — including Billy Ray Pratt, 24, of Halethorpe, and Joshua Wall, 20, of Essex — to hang the raccoon from the family's porch after a boy in the family got into a fight with Dena Whedlee's son, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein.

The women "understood and discussed the racial significance of using a raccoon, acknowledging that the term 'coon' is a derogatory term for black people," and discussed how hanging the animal would symbolize hanging a black person, prosecutors said.

A True Trailblazer

A True Trailblazer: As a pioneering television journalist, Belva Davis overcame racism and sexism in the workplace and society while reporting on politics and racial and gender issues. In the news industry, she is considered “the Walter Cronkite” of northern California.

An office worker at a naval supply center, Davis unexpectedly fell into journalism when she tried getting charity events mentioned in Black-owned newspapers and wound up freelancing for Jet and Ebony magazines. Her move into radio led to covering the 1964 Republican National Convention, where she was verbally and physically assaulted. By 1967, Davis joined the CBS affiliate in San Francisco as the first Black female TV reporter in the western United States.

Davis eventually anchored the news there and for affiliates of two other networks. She has covered Vietnam War protests, the rise of the Black Panthers and the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.

Making the Grade at San Diego State

Making the Grade at San Diego State: ... San Diego State has been lauded nationally for its success on this front. An article titled “Walking the Walk on Student Retention” by the Education Trust, a Washington-based nonprofit that seeks to address achievement and opportunity disparities among students, stated: “The university not only collects and analyzes data, it uses it to identify at-risk populations, to develop and test the outcome of interventions and to measure progress in retention and graduation rates over time and for particular groups.”

... According to the university’s statistics, among freshmen who attended classes in 2010, 88.3 percent were enrolled again in fall 2011, a significant increase from the previous year when 82.3 percent of freshmen continued to their second year. SDSU’s current six-year graduation rate is 65.7 percent.
Dr. Geoffrey Chase, dean of undergraduate studies, also notes that the racial gap in retention has almost disappeared. For example, Chase says that in 2010 the freshman retention for students of color was 87.4 percent, less than one percent lower than the overall rate. In 1999, he says the freshman retention rate was 75 percent and 70 percent for students of color.

George K. McKinney, pioneering U.S. marshal and longtime federal worker, dies - The Washington Post

George K. McKinney, pioneering U.S. marshal and longtime federal worker, dies - The Washington Post: George K. McKinney, pioneering U.S. marshal and longtime federal worker, dies

George K. McKinney, who was the first African American to be appointed U.S. marshal for the District of Maryland, and whose career in federal service spanned more than four decades, died June 17 of leukemia at his home in Baltimore, his family said. He was 77.

Early in his career, Mr. Kinney was a deputy U.S. marshal for the District of Maryland and a special agent and polygraph examiner with the National Security Agency at Fort Meade. In 1973, he was appointed U.S. marshal for the District of Columbia — the third African American marshal to serve the district — by President Richard M. Nixon.

British police investigate racist ‘tweet attack’ on England duo | The Raw Story

British police investigate racist ‘tweet attack’ on England duo | The Raw Story: British police launched an investigation on Monday after two England internationals were subject to abuse on social networking site Twitter.

Ashley Young and Ashley Cole were targeted after missing penalties in England’s Euro 2012 quarter-final loss to Italy on Sunday.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “We are aware of alleged racist comments on Twitter following last night’s England game and have launched an investigation.

“The allegation was made to MPS on 25 June by a member of the public relating to comments on a Twitter account supposedly based in London.

“No arrests at this early stage.
The Football Association branded the Twitter attacks as “appalling and unacceptable”.

“We are concerned at the reports regarding allegations of abuse aimed at England players Ashley Cole and Ashley Young on Twitter,” an FA statement read.

Will Asian Americans feel the sting of an anti-immigrant backlash? - latimes.com

Will Asian Americans feel the sting of an anti-immigrant backlash? - latimes.com: All those essentially positive stereotypes you've heard about — the hard work and the Tiger Moms — have made Asian Americans the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States. Not only that, in the last few years, Asians have overtaken Latinos as the largest group of new immigrants to the U.S.

This is all good news — both for Asian Americans and the United States — but the Jewish comparison has a dark side. Once the cheering over this study, titled "The Rise of Asian America," has subsided, we might remember it as the dawn of a new era of anti-Asian bias.

Americans tend to view race and ethnic relations as a linear progression. The triumphant narrative of the civil rights movement has us convinced that things get better over time: Economic status rises as prejudice decreases, and vice versa. We also like to tell ourselves that bias is always targeted downward, at the weakest and the most vulnerable in society.

Racist Travel Ad Tells People To 'See Asia Like Asians Do'

Racist Travel Ad Tells People To 'See Asia Like Asians Do': The idea of seeing Asia like Asians do is a great one. That implies getting to know the continent like a local, not a tourist. Or, so Ukranian ad agency Tabasco might have thought.

But, apparently, according to an ad created for Ukrainian travel agency Multipass, it also takes a certain way of seeing to really see Asia like an Asian.

As seen on Advert Lover, the request was for an ad that would "promote travel agency, especially its Asian destinations, including exclusive ethnic tours."

Setting the Course for Future Physicians

Setting the Course for Future Physicians: Two historically Black schools lead the pack. Xavier University continues to dominate, with 60 of its alumni graduating from medical schools around the country last year. Howard University is next, with 43. Xavier has been number one for two decades or longer, and Howard consistently hangs close to the top.

The next school on the list is a bit of a surprise. The majority White university that produced the largest number of Black undergraduates who earned MDs in 2011, with 26, is the University of Florida, edging out Harvard, Yale, Duke and Stanford universities.

Roger Garrison, Georgia Sheriff, Denies Ku Klux Klan Affiliation After Release Of Old Photos (VIDEO)

Roger Garrison, Georgia Sheriff, Denies Ku Klux Klan Affiliation After Release Of Old Photos (VIDEO): A Georgia sheriff seeking re-election this year responded to an embarrassing moment from his past after old photos of him dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood surfaced.

Cherokee County Sheriff Roger Garrison, who denied affiliation with the KKK, told ABC Atlanta that the photos, which were taken at a Halloween party more than 25 years ago, were a costume meant to depict a scene from the Mel Brooks satire "Blazing Saddles."

"I don't deny it wasn't stupid, looking back now," Garrison said. "But there again I say what 21- or 22-year-old in this world hasn't made some stupid mistakes?"

In an interview with the Cherokee Tribune, the sheriff accused his opponent, David Waters, of leaking the photos in an attempt to damage his character.

North Carolina bar faces firestorm for alleged racism | The Raw Story

North Carolina bar faces firestorm for alleged racism | The Raw Story: “What makes me so undesirable as a patron?” Jonathan Wall is asking. It’s a question that has gotten increasing amounts of attention since his story went online earlier this week.

Wall, a 21-year-old grad student, posted his account of an ugly encounter with employees at the Downtown Sports Bar & Grill in Raleigh, N.C. on a former instructor’s blog, leading to more stories coming out alleging racial discrimination by the venue.

Wall, who is black, says he almost wasn’t allowed into the bar at all when he went there last week with two friends, one white and one black; an employee had told him he needed a membership to get in before relenting. At one point, he says, he was alone and was told to buy a drink or leave.

Juneteenth: Where to honor the end of slavery - CNN.com

Juneteenth: Where to honor the end of slavery - CNN.com: Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger of the Union Army announced to the assembled crowd at Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, "In accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free."

It was June 19, 1865.

Never mind that President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had been written and read more than two years earlier. Juneteenth, named for the June 19 declaration, started as a celebration of emancipation day in Texas and eventually spread to other states. With celebrations dating back to 1866, Juneteenth now commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.

"America cannot understand its own history unless the African-American experience is embraced as a central factor in shaping who we are and what we have become as Americans," writes Lonnie G. Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington.

Set to open in 2015, the museum will be the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African-American life, art and culture.

First Year Without Controversial Class In Ariz. Ends : NPR

First Year Without Controversial Class In Ariz. Ends : NPR: The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on Arizona's tough new immigration law soon, but there is another controversial Arizona measure impacting Latinos that has also generated strong reaction.

The law went into effect last year, and it essentially ruled that the Mexican-American studies program offered in the Tucson public school system was divisive and should be scrapped. At the end of the first semester without the classes, hard feelings still linger.

For eight years, until this past January, Lorenzo Lopez taught Mexican-American studies at Cholla High in Tucson, the very school from which he graduated in 1992.

After high school, Lopez spent a couple years working odd jobs as a miner and a factor worker; anything to pay the bills. But then he enrolled in college to get ahead and he was doing alright, but it was one class — a course in Chicano literature — that changed everything.

Paul Williams: The Trailblazing Black Architect Who Helped Shape L.A. : NPR

Paul Williams: The Trailblazing Black Architect Who Helped Shape L.A. : NPR: Paul Revere Williams began designing homes and commercial buildings in the early 1920s. By the time he died in 1980, he had created some 2,500 buildings, most of them in and around Los Angeles, but also around the globe. And he did it as a pioneer: Paul Williams was African-American. He was the first black architect to become a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1923, and in 1957 he was inducted as the AIA's first black fellow.

His granddaughter, Karen E. Hudson, has been chronicling Williams' life and work for the past two decades. Her latest book, Paul R. Williams: Classic Hollywood Style, focuses on some of the homes of his celebrity clients. They feature many characteristics that were innovative when he used them in the 1920s through the '70s and are considered common practice now — like the patio as an extension of the house, and hidden, retractable screens.

The Shop Class Stigma: What Title IX Didn't Change : NPR

The Shop Class Stigma: What Title IX Didn't Change : NPR: Forty years ago, former President Richard Nixon signed Title IX, which said no person shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from any education program or activity. Vocational education courses that barred girls — such as auto mechanics, carpentry and plumbing — became available for everyone. But it's still hard to find girls in classes once viewed as "for boys only."

Zoe Shipley, 15, has a passion for cars and tinkering with engines.

"It's just kind of cool to learn how to fix a car or learn about it," she says.

Zoe is also the only girl in her automotive technology course, so she's been teased a lot.

"They would call me grease monkey," she says. "I'm like, so what? At least I have the option to choose what I want to do, you know what I mean?"

That's what Title IX did. The law removed the policies and practices that kept female students from courses and programs once reserved for male students.

North Carolina Republicans undo Racial Justice Act for death row inmates | The Raw Story

North Carolina Republicans undo Racial Justice Act for death row inmates | The Raw Story: North Carolina Republicans have sent a bill to Gov. Bev Perdue (D) that effectively voids a law that allowed death row inmates to have their punishment reduced to life in prison if statistics showed that they were sentenced to die because of racism.

The governor vetoed a similar bill last year that would completely voided the Racial Justice Act, but this time Republicans were joined by five conservative Democrats, giving them a veto-proof majority.

“What they’ve done is very seriously gutted the Racial Justice Act,” Rep. Mickey Michaux (D) told WTVD.

How Much Does The Government Spend To Send A Kid To Public School? : Planet Money : NPR

How Much Does The Government Spend To Send A Kid To Public School? : Planet Money : NPR: On average, it costs $10,615 to send a kid to public school for a year. (That's federal, state and local government spending combined.)

As the map above shows, that one number masks a huge variation. Utah spends just over $6,000 per student; New York and the District of Columbia over $18,000.

There's even more variation when you get to the district level. Detailed figures and lots more data (including district-level spending) are available in a report the Census Bureau released today.

Manhattan Institute Segregation Report Flawed, Some Say

Manhattan Institute Segregation Report Flawed, Some Say: A recent report by the Manhattan Institute about the extent to which segregation may have declined in the last century has triggered a heated debate, with many social justice advocates rejecting its finding that segregation has virtually ended in U.S. cities.

The controversial study, “The End of the Segregated Century: Racial Separation in America’s Neighborhoods, 1890-2010,” has exposed sharp division among these advocates, scholars and researchers over whether the country has reached a major racial milestone or the study merely uses its data to mask disparities still plaguing people of color, especially African-Americans.

Edward Glaeser and Jacob Vigdor, fellows at the institute and authors of the report, contend that “American cities are now more integrated than they’ve been since 1910.” They also say that all-White neighborhoods have mostly vanished and that so-called “ghettos” populated by Blacks are in fast decline. Several experts on race and segregation, including researchers and academics, say these developments indicate change, even welcome progress, but certainly not the end of segregation.

Collegiate Sports Gender Equity Not Yet A Reality, Experts Say

Collegiate Sports Gender Equity Not Yet A Reality, Experts Say: Although women have made tremendous strides in collegiate sports since the 1972 passage of Title IX, significant work remains before women achieve equality with men on campus.

That was the thrust of one of several events held here in the nation’s capital Thursday meant to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the landmark federal legislation that outlawed sex discrimination in federally-funded education programs and activities.

“We’ve come a long way since Title IX has passed, but we have a long way to go,” Neena Chaudhry, senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center, said Thursday at the Center for American Progress during a panel discussion titled “Playing Fair: Title XI Now.”

One district’s tough road toward equity for all kids - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

One district’s tough road toward equity for all kids - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: Unless our children begin to learn together there is little hope that our people will ever learn to live together. — Justice Thurgood Marshall

I agree more than ever with these wise words and yet my recent experiences as superintendent make me wonder whether we are any closer today to achieving this vision than we were in 1974, when Justice Marshall wrote them as part of a dissenting opinion over a school integration plan for Detroit.

I say this because even when efforts to increase the achievement of all students are effective and working, it’s simply too easy for school boards and other community leaders to work against the notion of all children learning together. I lived through such an experience and it has led me to support positions I would have dismissed a decade ago.

'Slave' title causes flap for Hampton black history program - Baltimore Sun

'Slave' title causes flap for Hampton black history program - Baltimore Sun: Officials at the Hampton National Historic Site in Towson this week officially changed the name of a black history program planned for next month after controversy erupted over its original title — "Slave for a Day."

The July 8 event, which park ranger and event organizer Angela Roberts-Burton said is part of the historical site's monthly black history educational series, caused a stir on the Internet for what some believe was insensitive wording.

"By no means am I trying to, or are we the Park Service, trying to assimilate the atrocities that slave African-Americans endured," Roberts-Burton said Wednesday.

"This is just a glimpse of the hard work, being out in the heat and sun," she said.

In the initial event description on the Hampton National Historic Site website, which was online until Tuesday, Roberts-Burton used the "Slave for a Day" heading.

Recession widens the wealth gap by race - Jun. 21, 2012

Recession widens the wealth gap by race - Jun. 21, 2012: White Americans have 22 times more wealth than blacks -- a gap that nearly doubled during the Great Recession.

The median household net worth for whites was $110,729 in 2010, versus $4,995 for blacks, according to recently released Census Bureau figures.

The difference is similarly notable when it comes to Hispanics, who had a median household net worth of $7,424. The ratio between white and Hispanic wealth expanded to 15 to 1.

The gap between the races widened considerably during the recent economic downturn, which whites weathered better than blacks, Hispanics and Asians.

The latter three groups saw their median household net worth fall by roughly 60% between 2005 and 2010, while the median net worth for white households slipped only 23%.
This allowed whites to leap ahead of Asians as the race with the highest median household net worth.

Latino Diabetes Assn.'s keeper of the flame - chicagotribune.com

Latino Diabetes Assn.'s keeper of the flame - chicagotribune.com: ...Munoz was angry. He is often incensed. One out of eight Latino adults in Los Angeles County has been diagnosed with diabetes, a rate more than two times higher than for white adults, according to a 2007 survey taken for the Department of Public Health. Poor, Spanish-speaking Latinos are particularly vulnerable because they are much less likely to have access to information about the disease, decent medical care and healthy foods.

"We need your help, guys. So dig in those deep pockets that I know you've got and that your friends have and help us out, help us help the community," said Munoz, vice chairman of the nonprofit Latino Diabetes Assn.

For the last seven years, typically volunteering more than 20 hours a week, Munoz has struggled to put the Latino Diabetes Assn. on a solid financial footing.

Latest NCAA Postseason Bans Hit HBCUs Hard

Latest NCAA Postseason Bans Hit HBCUs Hard: Several HBCUs, including three historically Black college football programs, will not be allowed to participate in 2012-2013 postseason play under the just-released NCAA listing of schools that did not meet minimum academic progress guidelines. But help is on the way.

During a teleconference held yesterday, NCAA president Mark Emmert said that HBCU presidents were in favor of the new rules despite their disproportionate impact on HBCUs and other schools. He also promised that the NCAA will step up its support for these schools.

In an article in the May 24 edition of Diverse, Hampton University President William Harvey said, “I’m for the increased standards, but I’ve indicated we need more money [from the NCAA] to hire counselors and increase technology for our student athletes.”

‘Model Minority’ Myth Dispelled at AAPI Summit

‘Model Minority’ Myth Dispelled at AAPI Summit: Washington, D.C. — In order to live up to the designation of being an Asian-American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution, or an AANAPISI, a college or university must instill the idea into its campus ethos.

That was the heart of the message delivered Wednesday by DeAnza College President Brian Murphy at the third annual Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund Higher Education Summit.

“The AANAPISI designation isn’t some sidelight. It isn’t the next cool thing that goes away after the grant goes away,” Murphy said during the summit, held at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center.

“It’s who we are,” Murphy said of his institution’s status as an AANAPISI. “We are also at the same time Hispanic serving, immigrant serving, poor serving. We have to call that out.”

PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill A Throwback to Earlier Generations

PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill A Throwback to Earlier Generations: It’s another busy day in the life of Gwen Ifill.

Back-to-back meetings about topics that may be covered on one of her television news programs. Reading. Reading. Reading. She reads some five news aggregation sites on the Internet and “dips” into as many newspapers each day. She’s making and receiving phone calls about news developments around the nation and world. She’s tweeting and blogging and giving interviews on the telephone to the local all-news radio station.

It’s all part of the routine for Ifill, a reporter-anchor Monday through Wednesday for “The News Hour,” the daily in-depth news reporting program on PBS, and managing editor and moderator of “Washington Week,” the widely-respected and watched weekend news and analysis program, also on PBS.

Alice Walker rejects Hebrew edition of ‘The Color Purple’ - books - TODAY.com

Alice Walker rejects Hebrew edition of ‘The Color Purple’ - books - TODAY.com: JERUSALEM — American writer Alice Walker won't let an Israeli publisher release a new Hebrew edition of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple," saying she objects to Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people.

Walker, an ardent pro-Palestinian activist, said in a letter to Yediot Books that Israel practices "apartheid" and must change its policies before her works can be published there.

"I would so like knowing my books are read by the people of your country, especially by the young and by the brave Israeli activists (Jewish and Palestinian) for justice and peace I have had the joy of working beside," she wrote in the letter, obtained by The Associated Press. "I am hopeful that one day, maybe soon, this may happen. But now is not the time."

Times-Picayune Cuts: Black Journalists Hit Particularly Hard

Times-Picayune Cuts: Black Journalists Hit Particularly Hard: Black journalists are being hit particularly hard by the recent round of cuts at the New Orleans Times-Picayune and its sister papers in Alabama.

The brutal cuts at the papers, all of which are owned by Advance Publications, sent shudders throughout the media world. The titles will also cease daily publication in the fall.

But African-Americans at the Times-Picayune were disproportionately let go by management, a study by Poynter's Steve Myers found on Wednesday:

The Times-Picayune reported that 84 of 173 people in the newsroom were laid off, a loss of 48.5 percent. According to a list I assembled (based on conversations with multiple people in the newsroom) 14 of 26 African-Americans in the newsroom lost their jobs -- a 53.8 percent cut. That includes editors, reporters and administrative personnel.

Is Adidas sneaker design racist? - WTOP.com

Is Adidas sneaker design racist? - WTOP.com: WASHINGTON - Adidas is getting ready to launch a new sneaker in August, but the kicks are already at the center of a growing controversy.

The design features purple, gray and black color blocking with orange shackles that wrap around the ankles.

Some accuse the manufacturer of being racist for invoking slave imagery, while others merely find it in poor taste.

"Tighten up your style with the JS Roundhouse Mids," the company's Facebook photo caption reads.

Racial gap in life expectancy reaches new low in U.S. | The Raw Story

Racial gap in life expectancy reaches new low in U.S. | The Raw Story

The gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the United States, long attributed to socioeconomic disparities and a range of other factors, continued its historical decline between 2003 and 2008 and is now the smallest ever, Canadian researchers say in a new report.

The study, which drew on data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other sources and was published in the June 6 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, found an increase in life expectancy for both men and women, black and white.

The researchers from McGill University in Montreal noted a convergence in the rate of deaths from HIV and heart disease as contributing to the narrowing of the life expectancy gap.

The gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the United States, long attributed to socioeconomic disparities and a range of other factors, continued its historical decline between 2003 and 2008 and is now the smallest ever, Canadian researchers say in a new report.

The study, which drew on data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other sources and was published in the June 6 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, found an increase in life expectancy for both men and women, black and white.

The researchers from McGill University in Montreal noted a convergence in the rate of deaths from HIV and heart disease as contributing to the narrowing of the life expectancy gap.

Source: The Christian Science Monitor (http://s.tt/1f4SU)

The gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the United States, long attributed to socioeconomic disparities and a range of other factors, continued its historical decline between 2003 and 2008 and is now the smallest ever, Canadian researchers say in a new report.

The study, which drew on data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other sources and was published in the June 6 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, found an increase in life expectancy for both men and women, black and white.

The researchers from McGill University in Montreal noted a convergence in the rate of deaths from HIV and heart disease as contributing to the narrowing of the life expectancy gap.

Source: The Christian Science Monitor (http://s.tt/1f4SU)

Covering the Undocumented

Covering the Undocumented: From the outset of filming her report on college students who were not U.S. citizens, documentary journalist and then graduate student Catherine Orr steered clear of come common tools for crafting news stories about non-residents wanting to conceal their identity.

However, in light of several highly public situations, “What I didn’t want to do,” said Orr, 29, producer of “Dreams Delayed,” a 2011 long-form, multimedia news feature on college access for undocumented immigrants, “is put up a barrier between the viewer and the [interviewed] by blurring their faces. The blur almost automatically makes them seem criminalized.”

Charter schools enroll fewer disabled children than public schools, GAO report says - The Washington Post

Charter schools enroll fewer disabled children than public schools, GAO report says - The Washington Post: Public charter schools, a small but fast-growing segment of K-12 education, enroll fewer children with disabilities than traditional public schools, according to a new federal study.

The report, released Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office, examined how many disabled students are served by charter schools as compared with traditional public schools.

About 8 percent of the students at charter schools are disabled and require special services, compared with 11 percent of students in traditional public schools, the GAO found. Differences in enrollment were seen across a range of disabilities, from autism to speech impairment.

Public schools that accept federal money, including charters, are required by law to provide a “free appropriate” education to all disabled children. They cannot exclude disabled students or otherwise discriminate against them.

Four Arthur Ashe Sports Scholars Selected in the 2012 NFL Draft

Four Arthur Ashe Sports Scholars Selected in the 2012 NFL Draft: The 2012 National Football League Draft commenced with no doubt who would be selected first and second overall. Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III knew that they would be joining the Colts and Redskins, respectively. What many didn’t know is that Griffin, who won the 2011 Heisman Trophy, was an Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar finalist in 2010 and 2011.

The Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award is the only nationally recognized program that focuses on minority student-athletes who have excelled academically. Former Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson, who is the 2011 winner of the award, was also selected in the draft by the Seattle Seahawks in the third round with the 75th pick overall. Terrance Ganaway, who played running back for Baylor University, was a finalist for the award in 2011 and was drafted by the New York Jets in the fifth round. He graduated early from Baylor with a 3.79 GPA.

Q&A with Allan Goodman: The Rising Tide of International Students

Q&A with Allan Goodman: The Rising Tide of International Students: Increasing higher education attainment is becoming a global goal. From the United States to the European Union to China, places around the world are setting goals for how many college and university graduates they want to have. And as the numbers of students enrolling in higher education are going up, so are the numbers who are traveling abroad for some or all of their college careers. To find out why, The Hechinger Report talked with Allan Goodman, president and CEO of the Institute of International Education, a nonprofit that administers programs designed to increase the international flow of students, including the Fulbright program.

Gateway Program Provides Pathway to College for ‘At Risk’ Students

Gateway Program Provides Pathway to College for ‘At Risk’ Students: ...That all changed five years ago when Gibson enrolled in the Gateway to College Academy on the Clarkston campus of Georgia Perimeter College (GPC), a community college just outside Atlanta. The academy helps students like Gibson get back on track by helping them simultaneously earn both high school and college credits. Many eventually graduate with enough credits to transfer into GPC or other colleges as sophomores.

“I liked that [the staff] had the confidence in me that I could do it,” says Gibson, now a junior psychology major at Clayton State University. He plans to pursue master’s and doctorate degrees and then settle into a career in social work or psychology.

“I liked the constant support and the fact that they won’t tolerate any nonsense. If I were to be dramatic, I’d say that the program saved my life.”

Asians outnumber Hispanics among new immigrants - The Washington Post

Asians outnumber Hispanics among new immigrants - The Washington Post: Immigration from Latin America has dropped so precipitously that Asians now outnumber Hispanics among new arrivals in the United States, a new study shows.

The switchover has been in place since at least 2009, according to the Pew Research Center, and is primarily the result of plunging immigration from Mexico, the birthplace of more U.S. immigrants than any other country. This year, Pew said more Mexicans may be leaving the United States than arriving for the first time since the Great Depression, due to weakness in the U.S. job market, a rise in deportation and a decline in Mexico’s birthrate.

At the same time, the number of Asian immigrants has held steady or increased slightly. Pew’s analysis of census data estimated that 430,000 Asian immigrants came to the United States in 2010, making up 36 percent of all new immigrants, compared with 31 percent who were Hispanic.

The reversal is a reminder of how the recession and an uneven recovery have altered not only how people live but, to a degree, who lives in the United States. Demographers and immigration analysts cautioned that the two largest and fastest-growing groups may eventually switch places again when the economy grows robust.

BBC News - Southern Baptists set to elect first black president

BBC News - Southern Baptists set to elect first black president: The Southern Baptist Convention is set to elect its first-ever African-American president.

"My election is bringing down walls," says the Reverend Fred Luter, who is running unopposed at the Baptist convention in New Orleans later this week.

The Southern Baptist Convention is the biggest Protestant church in the US.

For many years it supported slavery. It is still predominantly white, but is has taken steps to distance itself from its past.

Rev Luter shows the BBC his community, and how he built one of the largest Southern Baptist congregations in New Orleans - almost 5,000 members - out of a struggling inner-city church.

Thousands silently march to protest NYPD stop-and-frisks | The Raw Story

Thousands silently march to protest NYPD stop-and-frisks | The Raw Story: Thousands of civil rights activists, LGBT leaders, labor and community organizers, and citizens outraged by New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy are marching today in a demonstration against the law enforcement tactic they say is a legally dubious form of institutionalized racial profiling.

And in a change from typical rallies, this one will be entirely silent.

“In contrast to previous demonstrations, we will march in silence as an illustration of both the tragedy and serious threat that stop and frisk and other forms of racial profiling present to our society,” the march’s official site states. “Silence is a powerful force that, like other forms of non-violent protest, holds a mirror to the brutality of one’s opponents.”

Conference: In Affirmative Action’s Defense, Supporters Urged To Focus on Economic Benefits

Conference: In Affirmative Action’s Defense, Supporters Urged To Focus on Economic Benefits: When making the case for affirmative action, particularly in a potentially adversarial environment, emphasize the economic imperatives instead of just the social justice aspects of diversity and inclusion.

That’s one of the key points that Charles Batey, associate director for the Equal Opportunity Office at Metropolitan State College of Denver, says he got from the 38th National Conference and Annual Meeting of the American Association for Affirmative Action, or AAAA.

“Those of us that have been in this business for years have emphasized social justice,” said Batey, who also serves as a board member at AAAA, in an interview at the conclusion of the three-day conference, which drew some 160 individuals—mostly from higher education but also the private sector and government.

White House Makes New Move on Immigration

White House Makes New Move on Immigration: With the DREAM Act stalled in the House and Senate, President Barack Obama on Friday announced plans to spare young undocumented immigrants from deportation in a move that could allow 800,000 students to stay in the country and seek employment.

"This is not amnesty. This is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship. It is not a permanent fix," Obama said at a White House briefing. Calling it a way to help students dubbed as “Dreamers,” the president described it as a stopgap measure “giving a degree of relief and hope to talented driven, patriotic young people.”

Under the policy, young people brought to the U.S. before age 16 could receive a two-year deferral from deportation with the possibility to renew that status.

A Local Life: St. John Barrett, lawyer who made the case for civil rights, dies at 89 - The Washington Post

A Local Life: St. John Barrett, lawyer who made the case for civil rights, dies at 89 - The Washington Post: St. John Barrett was often away from home when his five children were young. He didn’t tell them where he was going or say much about the work he did.

It took years before they learned that during the height of the civil rights movement, their father was traveling throughout the South, helping to define a new branch of the law and attempting to bring an end to segregation.

Beginning in 1955, when he came to Washington, Mr. Barrett was one of the first civil rights lawyers in the government. He was part of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division when it was created in 1957 and had a major role in many celebrated legal landmarks, including the desegregation of Little Rock’s Central High School in the 1950s, James Meredith’s enrollment as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi and the integration of interstate buses by the Freedom Riders of the early 1960s.

Racism Fears Hinder Soccer Tourney's Unity Message : NPR

Racism Fears Hinder Soccer Tourney's Unity Message : NPR: The European soccer championship is taking place for the first time in former East Bloc countries Ukraine and Poland. The tournament is supposed to highlight Europe's post-Cold War unity, but the age-old plagues of racism and nationalism persist.

Ukraine is home to a small number of Africans and Asians, many of whom came during the Soviet period. One prominent expatriate in Kiev is Charles Assante-Yeboa, president of the local Africa center.

Assante-Yeboa says four years ago, a group of Ukrainians wielding knives and clubs attacked him.

"Dark-skinned people are not very safe in Ukraine," Assante-Yeboa says. "We don't go to the places where we know that we could be privy to attacks."

A recent BBC report warned that widespread racism in Ukraine and Poland threatened black and Asian fans at the Euro 2012 games. That report outraged many Ukrainians and Poles.

Oleg Voloshyn, a spokesman for Ukraine's foreign ministry, acknowledged Ukrainians are capable of making racist remarks in the privacy of their homes.

Brooklyn Magnet Schools See Hurdles to Integration, Even in Kindergarten - NYTimes.com

Brooklyn Magnet Schools See Hurdles to Integration, Even in Kindergarten - NYTimes.com: ...The girls smiled with nervous concentration. They were, unwittingly, performing the delicate dance of desegregation. One child was white, one was black, and seven girls were Hispanic. Kylie was the only Asian student onstage — and in the kindergarten class this year at Public School 257, a magnet school of the performing arts in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

“She’s become very, very popular,” her father, Benson Yang, said at the school’s family night in early spring, when the children performed. “She gets a lot of attention.”

Kylie’s mother, Angie Cao, was so pleased with her daughter’s experience that she persuaded some friends to enroll their children at P.S. 257 next year. “Everybody will come here after seeing her,” she said.

If only change were as swift and simple as a child’s dance recital.

Instead, P.S. 257, where 73 percent of the students are Hispanic, has found integration to be far more intricate. One of four Williamsburg elementary schools to win a 2010 magnet grant from the United States Education Department to spur desegregation, it has struggled to follow a federal model created decades ago while focusing on more urgent battles: for resources, students and, above all, test scores.

Mario Balotelli Faces Racism At Euro 2012: UEFA Charges Croatia With Racial Abuse, Chants

Mario Balotelli Faces Racism At Euro 2012: UEFA Charges Croatia With Racial Abuse, Chants: WARSAW, Poland — UEFA made its first formal charges of racism at the European Championship on Saturday, opening a case against the Croatian soccer association after receiving reports that fans made monkey chants at Italy forward Mario Balotelli.

Croatia is charged with "improper conduct" of supporters, including "racist chants, racist symbols" at a game in Poznan on Thursday, the European soccer governing body said in a statement.

UEFA received reports from anti-discrimination monitors working with Football Against Racism in Europe, who wrote that Croatia fans made monkey noises and displayed far-right nationalist flags.

Balotelli, who is black, started the game for Italy against Croatia, and was replaced in the second half of the 1-1 draw.

Sleep Influenced By Race, Ethnicity And Country Of Origin, Studies Show

Sleep Influenced By Race, Ethnicity And Country Of Origin, Studies Show: It's hard to imagine that there could be racial and ethnic distinctions in the way people sleep, but there are, according to research presented at the American Academy of Sleep Medicine's SLEEP 2012 conference Wednesday.

Two studies set out to explore sleep disparities among Americans based on racial and ethnic background. One study, conducted by researchers at the State University of New York (SUNY), looked at 400,000 respondents from the National Health Interview Surveys between 2004 and 2010 and found that those born in the United States were more likely to report sleeping longer than the recommended seven to nine hours each night. African-born Americans were more likely to report sleeping six hours or less, and Indian-born Americans reported six to eight hours a night.

CDC - Cervical Cancer Rates by Race and Ethnicity

CDC - Cervical Cancer Rates by Race and Ethnicity: The rate of women getting cervical cancer or dying from cervical cancer varies by race and ethnicity.
Incidence Rates by Race/Ethnicity

"Incidence rate" means how many women out of a given number get the disease each year. The graph below shows how many women out of 100,000 got cervical cancer each year during the years 1999–2008. The year 2008 is the most recent year for which numbers have been reported. The cervical cancer incidence rate is grouped by race and ethnicity.

For example, you can see that in 2008, Hispanic women had the highest incidence rate for cervical cancer. Black women had the second highest rate of getting cervical cancer, followed by white, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Asian/Pacific Islander women.

From Harvard to HBCU, Scholar Stays Committed to the Cause

From Harvard to HBCU, Scholar Stays Committed to the Cause: Dr. Huijun Li left Harvard University earlier this year to take a position as an assistant professor in the psychology department at Florida A&M University. After arriving at FAMU, she was awarded a $250,000 research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.

At Harvard, Li served as director of multicultural research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. A native of China, Li received a master’s degree in applied linguistics from Kunming University of Science and Technology. She has a Ph.D. in school psychology from the University of Arizona and is a nationally certified school psychologist. She remains a visiting assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School.

Li discusses the reasons for her recent move and her expansive research project that includes scientists and scholars at three universities on two continents.

Commentary: Latest Assault on Black Studies Reaffirms Its Relevance

Commentary: Latest Assault on Black Studies Reaffirms Its Relevance: In April, Naomi Schaefer Riley penned two controversial blogs about eliminating Black studies programs. She wrote a blog post about abolishing Black studies for, of all things, poorly-written and irrelevant dissertations. What she did not let her readers know is that is the case for nearly all dissertations. The first offering of a doctoral candidate is often a hodge-podge of sound and fury, only signifying that the candidate can take feedback and psychological pain well and, under that duress, write anything that pleases the three people on the committee. There are exceptions, but I would dare to venture that most of the outstanding dissertations are from people with full fellowships or who work at the university full-time. As William Germano wrote in his 2005 book, From Dissertation to Book, “what makes a dissertation outstanding to a publisher isn’t exactly the same thing that makes it outstanding to the scholarly community.”

Conference: Is the Defense of Affirmative Action Lacking Urgency?

Conference: Is the Defense of Affirmative Action Lacking Urgency?: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Although race-conscious affirmative action in higher education faces a “clear and present danger,” a case testing the use of race hasn’t prompted the same sense of urgency as the last time the issue came before the U.S. Supreme Court.

So lamented Dr. Gary Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project at UCLA, in a brief speech he gave here Thursday at the 38th National Conference and Annual Meeting of the American Association for Affirmative Action, or AAAA.

“We’re talking about a fundamental risk for a tool that we have no effective alternative for in a society that has really a deepening of inequalities in college completion levels,” Orfield said during a luncheon panel that focused on education.

Club 2012: Black parents who made sure their sons succeeded in school - The Washington Post

Club 2012: Black parents who made sure their sons succeeded in school - The Washington Post: For six years, their parents had nagged and prodded and pressed them to perform.

Now these African American seniors in Loudoun County were marking the end of high school with a private ceremony organized by their parents, who had banded together back in middle school to make sure their sons made it successfully to graduation day.

“For the last six years, we’ve told you to do more, do better. We’re never satisfied, right?” said John Johnson, an Ashburn father addressing the 18 students in dress shirts and suit jackets in the auditorium at Lunsford Middle School in Chantilly.

“Well, tonight,” he declared, “we are satisfied.”
He flashed through a slide show of the core members’ accomplishments: 100 percent graduation rate, 92 percent enrollment in Advanced Placement classes, a cumulative 3.7 grade-point average and a combined $1.3 million in college scholarships.

Academic Leaders Share STEM Education Ideas

Academic Leaders Share STEM Education Ideas: WASHINGTON, D.C. – High levels of student educational attainment and career success in STEM disciplines become easier to reach when institutional leaders take a systematic approach toward change and make mentoring a prominent part of their programs.

This was among the key points made Wednesday at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) 2012 Joint Annual Meeting, or JAM, on Broadening Participation Research.

"As [students] learn more and develop more and see what is out there, their world opens up,” Kimberly Cline, president of Mercy College, said in describing the impact of PACT, or Personalized Achievement Contract, an initiative her college implemented and that connects students with mentors who work as STEM professionals at major U.S. companies, namely, IBM and Johnson & Johnson.

Students at Baltimore County school make racist drawing during class - baltimoresun.com

Students at Baltimore County school make racist drawing during class - baltimoresun.com: Students at a Baltimore County high school drew a racially offensive picture on a classroom board last week and then sent it out on Twitter, prompting the principal to call the police and suspend several students.

The picture, drawn during class at Eastern Technology High School, shows three nooses hanging from the rafters of a building, according to Baltimore County police spokesman Cathy Batton. Beside the ropes are a burning cross with three stick figures in pointed hats, suggesting the Ku Klux Klan. To the right is a grave marker with the name Barack Obama at the top; under the president's name are two racial epithets.

"We have a group of teenagers who made bad decisions. It was coupled with a lack of supervision by a teacher. We are going to use it as a teaching opportunity next year," said Eastern Tech Principal Tom Evans.

Black Names: Bad News for Jobs

Black Names: Bad News for Jobs: ABC's 20/20 put 20 of the "blackest" and "whitest" (as determined by D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's book, Freakonomics) male and female names to the test, posting identical resumes with different names at the top. Guess which ones got ignored?

OK, that wasn't a hard question.

Those with the white-sounding names were actually downloaded 17 percent more often by job recruiters than the resumes with black-sounding names, according to ABC News. Sad (and probably dumb on the part of those doing the hiring, considering that they're passing over people with qualifications that meet their needs), but not really surprising.

Some examples from the lists of "black" names:

Imani
Ebony
Shanice
Aaliyah
Precious
Nia
Deja
Diamond
Asia
Dominique

DeShawn
DeAndre
Marquis
Darnell
Terrell
Malik
Trevon
Tyrone
Willie
Demetrius

Segregation Book: A Tale of Separation Past and Present

Segregation Book: A Tale of Separation Past and Present: In his latest book, Segregation: A Global History, author Carl H. Nightingale delves into the mysterious and elusive dynamics, as well as the many institutions, that motivated segregation throughout the centuries in some of the world's largest cities, including London, Paris, Calcutta, San Francisco, New York and more.

More than a history lesson, Nightingale highlights the continued presence of de facto segregation in today's metropolises, as well as its continued devastating effects.

Nightingale's Segregation is now available online and in bookstores.

Black Students: Do They Need Black Teachers?

Black Students: Do They Need Black Teachers?: Do black students need black teachers to be successful? Does it help, as conventional wisdom suggests? Not necessarily, according to new research by Walter Hunt, a recent graduate of the University of Houston's Executive Education Doctorate in Professional Leadership program. But taken in the context of other research on race and education, the results are a little more nuanced, as the Huffington Post reports.

The conclusion: Black (and Latino) teachers' ability to relate to students hinges on all other factors being equal. And that "all other factors being equal" bit simply draws attention back to the origins of the achievement gap itself:

Interview: The Tanning of America with Dr. Marcia Alesan Dawkins

Interview: The Tanning of America with Dr. Marcia Alesan Dawkins: A visiting scholar at Brown University cautions that the growing increase in non-White births in the U.S. will not guarantee more social justice in America in the coming decades. In “The Future of the ‘Tan Generation’”, appearing in The Root website, Dr. Marcia Alesan Dawkins spoke to writer Jenee Desmond-Harris about American society’s current demographic transformation.

Dawkins, the author of the forthcoming Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity, has published extensive writings on racial identity as an expression of "how people figure out who they are and how they connect with others," She has warned readers not to assume that demographic changes will banish the legacy of America's troubled racial past.

New U.S. Education Department Data Identify High- and Low-Cost Schools

New U.S. Education Department Data Identify High- and Low-Cost Schools: The U.S. Department of Education’s latest college cost report shows minority-serving institutions with some of the lowest net prices nationwide while others are struggling to keep tuition down due to state cuts and other factors.

The education department on Tuesday released its second annual set of data on the highest- and lowest-price colleges and universities by sector, meeting a mandate established by Congress in 2008. “These lists are a major step forward in unraveling the mystery of higher education pricing,” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said when releasing the data.

In the four-year public sector, Puerto Rico placed four colleges and universities among the top 10 with the lowest net price, which is tuition minus average grant and scholarship aid. Macon State College in Georgia had the lowest net price, followed by two Puerto Rico institutions--Escuela de Artes Plasticas and University of Puerto Rico-Bayamon.

China to America Student Flow Continues to Grow

China to America Student Flow Continues to Grow: This fall, at least 10 percent of the University of Washington’s incoming freshman class of 6,000 is expected to come from China, a figure that mirrors this year’s enrollment and one that has grown steadily over the years.

At Kent State University, Chinese undergraduate enrollment soared from 222 in fall 2009 to 548 this spring. DePaul University saw its Chinese undergraduate enrollment increase six-fold in a four-year period, from 91 in 2007 to 545 in fall 2011. At Iowa State University, communications professor Jay Newell’s advertising principles class of more than 200 students has such a large number of Chinese students that his PowerPoint presentations are in both English and Chinese.