{"id":421142,"date":"2010-03-12T11:06:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T15:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.southernstudies.org,2010:\/\/5.12179"},"modified":"2010-03-18T10:27:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:27:50","slug":"institute-index-civil-rights-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421142","title":{"rendered":"INSTITUTE INDEX: Civil rights in the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a class=\"a2a_dd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkname=&amp;linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.southernstudies.org%2F2010%2F03%2Finstitute-index-civil-rights-in-the-classroom.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/buttons\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">a2a_linkurl=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2010\/03\/institute-index-civil-rights-in-the-classroom.html\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/page.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/images\/sitepieces\/arne_duncan_selma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"arne_duncan_selma.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/arne_duncan_selma-thumb-250x166.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"166\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Date on which U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered a speech<br \/>\nat the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. calling for stepped up civil<br \/>\nrights enforcement in schools: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/news\/pressreleases\/2010\/03\/03082010a.html\">3\/8\/2010<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nNumber of years earlier that the infamous &#8220;Bloody Sunday&#8221; civil rights<br \/>\nconfrontation took place there, an event that Duncan&#8217;s speech<br \/>\ncommemorated: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/news\/pressreleases\/2010\/03\/03082010a.html\">45<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Number of civil rights investigations that Duncan&#8217;s department plans to open this year: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-03-08\/duncan-to-increase-enforcement-of-civil-rights-in-u-s-schools.html\">38<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Number of states in which the department plans to examine school districts&#8217; disciplinary practices: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052748704706304575107653593000486.html\">5<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Since 1980, percentage by which the staff in the Education Department&#8217;s civil rights unit has been reduced: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-03-08\/duncan-to-increase-enforcement-of-civil-rights-in-u-s-schools.html\">50<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nNumber of times by which white students are more likely than black<br \/>\nstudents to be college-ready in biology at the end of high school: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hmILVel2zE76JZGnoDy72Vik4ctwD9EAP10G1\">6<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Number of times by which white students are more likely than black students to be prepared for college algebra: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hmILVel2zE76JZGnoDy72Vik4ctwD9EAP10G1\">4<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nNumber of times by which black students with disabilities are more<br \/>\nlikely than their white counterparts to be expelled or suspended: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hmILVel2zE76JZGnoDy72Vik4ctwD9EAP10G1\">more than 2<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Number of times by which black students without disabilities are more likely than white students to be expelled: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hmILVel2zE76JZGnoDy72Vik4ctwD9EAP10G1\">more than 3<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nPercentage by which students from low-income families who graduated in<br \/>\nthe top testing quartile are more likely to attend college than the<br \/>\nlowest-scoring students from wealthy families: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hmILVel2zE76JZGnoDy72Vik4ctwD9EAP10G1\">0<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percentage of U.S. high schools that produce half of all U.S. dropouts: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Education\/2010\/0308\/Obama-administration-more-civil-rights-enforcement-in-schools\">12<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percentage of African-American and Latino students who come from those schools: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Education\/2010\/0308\/Obama-administration-more-civil-rights-enforcement-in-schools\">75<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nPercentage of teachers who had been let go and had trouble finding<br \/>\nanother job who were placed in high-poverty schools, according to one<br \/>\nnewspaper investigation: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Education\/2010\/0308\/Obama-administration-more-civil-rights-enforcement-in-schools\">75<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>(Click on the figure to go to the original source.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\"><i>(Photo of Secretary Duncan speaking in Selma from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/blog\/2010\/03\/anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-in-selma\/\">U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s website<\/a>.)<\/i><\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date on which U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered a speech at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. calling for stepped up civil rights enforcement in schools: 3\/8\/2010 Number of years earlier that the infamous &#8220;Bloody Sunday&#8221; 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