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com - 20 hrs ago Black and Latino students may be getting less critical, but helpful, feedback from teachers than their white counterparts, a new educational study indicates. "The social implications of these results are important;
stimulates intellectual growth and fosters achievement," study researcher Kent Harber, a Rutgers-Newark psychology professor, said in a press release. This positive bias in feedback to minority students may be contributing to the achievement gap between white and minority students, a stubborn national problem, Harber said. The study "tested" 113 white middle-school and high-school teachers in two public school districts, one middle class and white, and the other working class and racially mixed. Both are located in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state area. Harber and colleagues developed a poorly written essay that they gave to the teachers to grade, under the pretense that it was the work of a student. In some cases, the teachers believed the student was white, in others black and in others Latino. The teachers believed their feedback would go directly to the student.
The researchers found that, indeed, the teachers were prone to give more praise and less criticism if they believed a minority student had written the paper, as opposed to a white student. The researchers also considered the support the teacher received from colleagues and administration.
FILE - In this May 12, 2009 file photo, musician Adam Yauch from the Beastie Boys, attends a special evening to honor artist Ross Bleckner's appointment as Goodwill Ambassador at the United Nations. Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper who co-founded the seminal hip-hop group, has died at age 47. Yauch, who's also known as MCA, was diagnosed with a cancerous parotid gland in 2009.
Alhambra, California o 16 hrs ago This Yahoo article is really weird. Teachers have been ORDERED to give positive bias to Black kids for decades. In 1975 I personally was told by a San Francisco, CA public junior high school teacher that he was warned that if he ever gave any Black student less than a "B" that he would be fired immediately. The teacher told me that this applied even to kids who could not read (he taught English classes) and he said that he could not wait to retire.
Orlando, Florida o 15 hrs ago The bottom line- treat everyone equally and let everyone be required to meet the same standards. Quit dumbing-down the education system to make it easier for some to pass.
Hulk Smash o 13 hrs ago You are doing no one any favors by coddling them! I know there are people out there that will scream racism, fine! Many others know that PC is poisoning intellectual development and quailing the ambition of young minorities.
Johnny Pro o 5 hrs ago Research reveals that classes with mostly white and asian students are higher acheivers than ones with mostly black and latino. It is a fact regardless of suburban, inner city, or country schools. Why is it that gifted and talented programs are mostly white and asian? It's a cultural thing and that culture is responsible for it.
o 6 hrs ago I have watched minority's scream for educational equality and achieve it! Present day minority's can't even speak English as well as 3rd world country's!
M o 7 hrs ago So the teachers are racist if they criticize truthfully, and racist if they don't. So it's never the minority student's fault or responsibility either way.
Richardson, Texas o 3 hrs ago Reverse discrimination might fit this situation! The whites suffer now for the hand outs, freebies, preferred status, lower grade requirements, easier qualifying of Blacks and Hispanics. After 50 years of giving them the easier road--does anyone think it's time to level the playing field and make them work for what they get grades included just like the white students have to? Treat all students the same in class, grade all tests the same, get rid of the color barrier of all types.
prochina o 7 hrs ago Affirmative action is the Achilles heel of the minority community. Maybe I wouldn't either if I grew up thinking I told from knee-high that I was inferior and always needed help from the "superior" race. As long as we continue patronizing minorities and let them get away with inferior work, they will remain inferior.
Port Orange, Florida o 7 hrs ago Minority's are taught from a early age to throw the race card when ever things dont go there way so who cares if they can read or write its not there fault its the man putting them down.
Johnny Pro o 5 hrs ago If these researchers want to do controversial research they should evaluate the black colleges and universities that have been known to be diploma mills. How is it that minority students who are not accepted at other colleges go there and get degrees? Also compare the percentage of tax-payer funding for a black college as to a regular state university.
Fairport, New York o 17 hrs ago As a former teacher I have to say that I observed this in my own school. SOME of the teachers were very patronizing towards the minority students and had very low expectations. I was not popular with many of them, because they were used to being told anything they did was wonderful. It is up to parents to ALLOW teachers to have high standards without defending little Johnny when he screws up. I found no difference among kids or parents based on skin color. Treating minority kids like idiots is an insult to them and to the teaching profession.
A "supermoon" is seen behind the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, May 6, 2012. A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon (or a new moon) with the closest approach the moon makes to the Earth.
AP Photos: Supermoon glows around the globe It may have been only an optical illusion, but what a sight. The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrived Saturday night and glowed around the world.
A "supermoon" is seen behind the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, May 6, 2012. A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon (or a new moon) with the closest approach the moon makes to the Earth. The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrived Saturday night and glowed around the world.
In this undated photo, Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is seen on his death bed. Stress, on the other hand, didn't help, and poison may have done him in. That's the conclusion of a doctor and a historian who examined medical records and other evidence for an annual University of Maryland School of Medicine conference on the deaths of famous figures. Harry Vinters and Russian historian Lev Lurie reviewed Lenin's records for an annual University of Maryland School of Medicine conference that opens Friday, May 4, 2012 in Baltimore on famous people's deaths.
Stress didn't help, poison eyed Stress, family medical history or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, contradicting a popular theory that a sexually transmitted disease debilitated the former Soviet Union leader, ...
In this undated photo, Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is seen on his death bed. Stress, on the other hand, didn't help, and poison may have done him in. That's the conclusion of a doctor and a historian who examined medical records and other evidence for an annual University of Maryland School of Medicine conference on the deaths of famous figures. Harry Vinters and Russian historian Lev Lurie reviewed Lenin's records for an annual University of Maryland School of Medicine conference that opens Friday, May 4, 2012 in Baltimore on famous people's deaths.
Daves Dolphin and Whale Safari shows a gray whale entangled in netting in the waters off the coast of Southern California April 17, 2012. Federal wildlife officials say that a whale tangled in a large fishing line that went missing during previous rescue attempts has been freed by a fisherman. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesman Jim Milbury says that a crabbing boat's captain and crew spotted the gray whale in the ocean off Bodega Bay on Thursday. Captain Mark Anello and his crew spent 90 minutes working to free the 40-ton mammal.
Northern California fishermen free entangled whale Crab fisherman...
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