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Warren Research Professor of the History of American Education at the Graduate School of Education Patricia A. Graham says the national trend is due to changing expectations of adult women...
...Basically this is largely a consequence of adult women now having greater choices for their lives, and boys who may be bright but who are disinterested in school not continuing their educations,” Graham, a former director of the National Institute of Education, writes in an e-mail...
Ochs, who is now 45, has worked in the romance languages department for 21 years—“my entire adult life,” she said...
...toward the 8-year-old and encourage him simply to "see it and hit it." As Jonathan improved, Chappell suggested targets at which to direct his strokes. "Within months he was playing shots - including forcing shots off the back foot - that I couldn't play until I was an adult," Chappell says. "His progress was incredible. And I hadn't taught him a thing." Perhaps, Chappell thought, Jonathan's ability was inherited. "But I've seen that rate of improvement too often since," he says, "in kids who don't have genetic advantages." (Jonathan was a standout in under...
...Beyond segregation, blacks continue to lag behind educationally. More than 70% of white students graduate from high school on time; just over half of black and Hispanic students do. Blacks make up 8.5% of all students in U.S. graduate programs, well short of their percentage of the young adult population. That can lead to economic disparity: the black unemployment rate is almost double the rate of whites. In 2002, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that the poverty rate for whites was 7.8% whereas for African Americans it reached...