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So, apparently my mother is white.Despite two decades filled with her consoling image, images and particulars still nestled firmly in the nooks of my nostalgia—coffee auburn locks to match the scent of sweet coffee on her words—I was probably tipped off to her lurking...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Colorblind | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

Girls and minority children of both sexes benefit from the academic climate, leadership opportunities, and role models found in single sex schools. Indeed, some recent research has showed improvement not only in academic subjects like math but also in attendance and behavior. Given that poor children of Hispanic and African...

Author: By Diana Meehan, ph.d | Title: Sex, Education, and Government | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

Almost a year after the president of the Cambridge chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) compared the Cambridge Public Schools’ achievement benchmarks to an “apartheid educational system,” the benchmarks system has been revised and achievement gaps...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Race Gap Narrows in Schools | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

There's an ethnic and racial range as well. Torres, who is Hispanic, can chat with naughty or nice kids in both English and Spanish. And the order has a number of black members, including Dion Sinclair of Atlanta. When Sinclair was on duty at the mall, white parents sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Real Santas | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

Mark Adomanis’s column “Affirmative Action Returns” (November 30) is both thoughtful and intelligent. As an immigrant, with Asian and Hispanic roots, I have often wondered who made the decision that Asians were over-represented and, as such, were not considered part of...

Author: By Anna Wood | Title: Affirmative Action Controversy does not Yield Easy Answers | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

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