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Three of the main topics addressed both at the meetings and in the report were equity in education, physical abuse in law enforcement and control of city violence and racial bias...

Author: By Olivia F. Gentile, | Title: City Looks at Race Relations | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

...commission members said that racial bias and physical abuse in law enforcement, which citizens at the meetings had cited as problems, can be partially prevented by improved police training and better dialogue among the police and community members...

Author: By Olivia F. Gentile, | Title: City Looks at Race Relations | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

There is no such thing as an inherently bias-free standard of academic achievement. Every standard we erect will reflect some particular set of values and criteria which is shared by some groups and not by others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The SAT Could Use Some Revision | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

Changing the SAT is not enough. However it is one step among many that the American educational system must take to finally accept accountability for institutional blindness and bias when it comes to the education and evaluation of minority students and to do something substantive about it. Yu Wong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The SAT Could Use Some Revision | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

Although Alex Trebek, the host of Jeopardy!, has attacked Inside Jeopardy!, a new book about the show, he acknowledges that the program does sometimes "wish to remove a clue that has a pro-male bias," which is one of the book's main charges. Here are some of the items that were allegedly switched for the sake of gender norming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is Affirmative Action? | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

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