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...said the show also includes seven Latinogroups, five African-American groups, fourEuropean and European-American groups and a groupof Native American students...
Still, some researchers make a case for elementary school homework. Carol Huntsinger, an education professor at the College of Lake County, near Chicago, compared the academic performance of local Chinese-American children with that of European-American kids. In the early grades, the Chinese-American students outperformed their white counterparts in math and mastery of vocabulary words. After examining a host of other factors, Huntsinger concluded that homework made the critical difference. In first grade the Chinese-American children were doing more than 20 min. of math homework a night, some of it formally assigned by their parents, while their...
...recent successes of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department do not change our view that the department should be disbanded and its members integrated into other fields taught at the university. For it is as wrong to have an ethnocentric Afro-American Studies Department as it would be to have an ethnocentric European-American Studies Department...
...Nation of Islam has its roots in the movement to rediscover African traditions which accompanied the campaign for civil rights. African-American activists of the era, in piecing together their ancestors' customs, sought a unique cultural identity for themselves, distinct from the European-American culture which had been imposed upon them...
High schoolers traditionally sign up in the fall for activities like football, cheerleading and the school newspaper. But at racially diverse Anaheim High School in Anaheim, Calif., students can now join the European-American Club, founded to promote "the educational and social advancement of the European- American student...