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The education of African Americans and some other minorities lags behind those of other U.S. ethnic groups, such as White Americans and Asian Americans, as reflected by test scores, grades, urban high school graduation rates, rates of disciplinary action, and rates of conferral of undergraduate degrees.
The experience of two highly selective public U.S. law schools offers a guide for other schools to admitting diverse students now that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned colleges and universities ...
The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...
Angela P. Harris (born 1961) is an American legal scholar at UC Davis School of Law, in the fields of critical race theory, feminist legal scholarship, and criminal law.She held the position of professor of law at UC Berkeley School of Law, joining the faculty in 1988.
Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
The Michigan Journal of Race & Law is a student-run civil rights journal published at the University of Michigan Law School. The Journal began publication in 1996 [1] and publishes semiannually. The editors and staff of the journal hold film series, critical race theory events, and symposia on issues related to the intersection of race and law.
Michelle Obama is also a Harvard Law School graduate, from the class of 1988. As the first-ever African-American First Lady, Obama has championed health, higher education, and support for service ...
A former University of Idaho professor has reached a $750,000 settlement with the university, its law school and two former deans for alleged discrimination and harassment based on race and gender.