Word: blacks
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...guidelines, drafted by the department's Office of Civil Rights (OCR), warn that colleges that rely heavily on SAT scores are risking a civil rights violation because black and Latino students have lower average scores that white students...
...When you see the numbers that you do with standardized test scores, showing that black or hispanic students are doing worse than white or Asian sudents... it's kind of a yellow warning light that tells you to ask yourself if there's a possibility of discrimination," she said...
...guidelines, drafted by the department's Office of Civil Rights (OCR), warn that colleges that rely heavily on SAT scores are risking a civil rights violation because black and Latino students have lower average scores that white students...
...When you see the numbers that you do with standardized test scores, showing that black or hispanic students are doing worse than white or Asian students... it's kind of a yellow warning light that tells you to ask yourself if there's a possibility of discrimination," she said...
While only a small number of people of African descent live in Moscow, there is a more significant minority whom the native Russians call derisively chernie liudi, or "black people." These "black people" come from the former Soviet republics in the Southern Caucasus: Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. A combination of warfare and economic disaster in these former republics since the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1991, along with the loosening of living restrictions in post-Soviet Moscow, have led to a large influx of Caucasians into Moscow. Moscow has not been very welcoming...