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Journey for racial justice is not over. Eli Hager has been a Teach for America teacher in Mississippi. In our national conversation about race and other forms of inequality, presidential candidates and the media have fostered a consensus that the civil rights movement is finished. The February groundbreaking for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, for example, celebrated the “history” of racial injustice. Republican candidate Mitt Romney noted that month that we shouldn’t be “concerned” about economic injustice — by now, he averred, that problem has been solved. Even Martin Luther King Jr. has been widely reimagined as a genial, nonpartisan man who would be satisfied with the legalistic gains black Americans have achieved yet unconcerned about their substandard socioeconomic status.

Civil rights activists who disagree are said to be stuck in the 1960s or harbor, as Romney put it, a “resentment of success.” Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Show. It is a well-known fact that children from affluent families tend to do better in school. Yet the income divide has received far less attention from policy makers and government officials than gaps in student accomplishment by race. Now, in analyses of long-term data published in recent months, researchers are finding that while the achievement gap between white and black students has narrowed significantly over the past few decades, the gap between rich and poor students has grown substantially during the same period. “We have moved from a society in the 1950s and 1960s, in which race was more consequential than family income, to one today in which family income appears more determinative of educational success than race,” said Sean F.

Reardon, a Stanford University sociologist. The changes are tectonic, a result of social and economic processes unfolding over many decades. Both studies were first published last fall in a book of research, “Whither Opportunity?” Black Male Success. Study aims to learn why some black men succeed in college. The litany of bad news about the status of black men in higher education is by now familiar. They make up barely 4 percent of all undergraduate students, the same proportion as in 1976.

They come into college less prepared than their peers for the rigors of college-level academic work. Their completion rates are the lowest of all major racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. Shaun R. And it troubled him professionally, as well, because he believes the relentless emphasis by researchers and others on the failures of black men has helped "shape America's low expectations for black men. " Harper set out to do something about it as he built his own research agenda as a graduate student a decade ago.

The answers drawn from the National Black Male College Achievement Study are anything but elemental. Beyond 'Deficit' Like so many academic research agendas, Shaun Harper's was shaped as much by personal experience as by professional curiosity and interest. 'Mr. What Follows? What Spurs Students to Stay in College and Learn? Good Teaching Practices and Diversity. - Research. By Dan Berrett St. Petersburg Beach, Fla. Good teaching and exposure to students from diverse backgrounds are some of the strongest predictors of whether freshmen return for a second year of college and improve their critical-thinking skills, say two prominent researchers. Patrick T. Terenzini, a professor of higher education at Pennsylvania State University, and Ernest T.

Pascarella, a co-director of the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education at the University of Iowa, spoke to an audience of chief academic and fund-raising officers convened by the Council of Independent Colleges here on Sunday. The two men are co-authors of a highly influential book, How College Affects Students, and they sought on Sunday to synthesize what recent research says about student learning, while also weighing in on recent controversies in higher-education research. Mr. Good teaching was not defined by test results. The Wabash National Study, Mr. The data also allowed Mr. Mr. Mr. Getting Results. Overview: How to Take This Course Site Map | Help | Feedback | Copyright | Credits | Video | Order CD-ROM.