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...suffer increasing isolation. Notes education professor Gary Orfield, co-author of the study: "One of our most sobering findings is that the group that is going to become the predominant minority population in this country, the Latinos, is even more isolated than the blacks. They're being locked into inferior, impoverished schools, and that means their future is threatened." Orfield's prediction: even more rapid escalation of current trends...
After all, in many people's minds, however, gay people just are inferior. And these people might want to use scientific findings to "cure" us, to weed us out, or even to prevent us from being born...
There are many groups at Harvard-Radcliffe serving women, yet rarely do any collaborate on projects or even sit around and chat. Oddly enough, students have not looked to Radcliffe to ameliorate this rift. Many see Radcliffe as an impotent, insignificant, even inferior version of Harvard. Students ask, what has Radcliffe ever done for us? Well, if you compare her to Harvard, Radcliffe has probably done very little. But why must we see Radcliffe only in relation to and dependent upon Harvard? Why can't we acknowledge Radcliffe's potential as an independent, empowering institution for women...
...living and of seeing things. One of the natural reactions to this sensory overload is to draw back in fear, and to comfort oneself by assuming that one's way of living and thinking are the only proper ways, and that different lifestyles are in some way inferior...
...growing community of Latino students is increasingly isolated in inferior schools," the authors wrote, "there could be a vicious cycle of declining opportunity...