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Carole F. Withrow, the program coordinator of Cambridge READS, said that Alvarez’s novel was chosen for the event because of its broad appeal among different age and racial groups...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Immigrant Author Finds Home in Books | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...most recent mental health surveys conducted at the city’s middle and high schools. The results, which were broken down by race and language spoken at home, showed that Asian high school students reported feeling sad or hopeless for two or more weeks more frequently than other racial groups. They were also most likely to have considered suicide, while multiracial students were most likely to have actually attempted it. The results also showed that Asians had the highest rate of participation in community service and the majority received grades of As and Bs. Hacker said that the relationship...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kids' Council Studies Mental Health | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...known part of American higher education. Like the other colleges, Chief Dull Knife was founded in the 1970s in protest over the curriculums that white institutions offered. "There was no connection with the reality at home," says its president, Richard E. Littlebear. The Indian students often had to endure racial cruelty too. "They called us 'prairie niggers,'" recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Chief Dull Knife College | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...sure, some cases have been clearly inappropriate - such as the Florida middle school instructor who was suspended Oct. 2 after writing a racial slur about Obama on his blackboard. Other situations, however, are more ambiguous. Consider the class of first graders at a San Francisco charter school, which recently had a school-sponsored outing to attend the wedding of their lesbian teacher. Three weeks from now, California voters will vote on Proposition 8, an anti-gay marriage ballot initiative, and proponents of that measure decry the field trip as overtly political. "This is promoting same-sex marriage and indoctrinating young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Classroom Politics: Should Teachers Endorse a Candidate? | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...those remedies may be missing the cause of the problem. Most of the booing came not from visiting Tunisians, but from fans born and raised in France. Such booing has come to be used by ethnic-Arab French soccer fans to protest the racial, social and economic discrimination suffered by those not fortunate enough to be among the stars of les Bleus. It's hardly coincidental that previous outbreaks of anthem booing (and resulting expressions of indignation by politicians) occurred before a France-Algeria match in 2001, a France-Morocco game in 2007, and a 2002 French Cup final orchestrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booing the Marsellaise: A French Soccer Scandal | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

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