Radley Balko takes a look at that 2007 Pew poll on American Muslims and finds: In contrast to many of the minority Muslim populations in Europe, American Muslims embrace modernity, are better educated, and earn more money than their non-Muslim fellow citizens. A 2007 Pew poll suggests American Muslims are also doing just fine when […]
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The Racial Graduation Gap.
Via The Quick and the Ed, the Education Trust releases a report about the racial gap in graduation rates at different universities. The worst offender: Wayne State in Detroit, where about a third of students are black but only 9.5 percent graduate in six years or less, compared with 43.5 percent of white students who […]
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Discrimination And Achievement.
Jamelle Bouie responds to a recent paper by Roland Fryer that finds “discrimination isn’t as nearly as important to explaining racial inequality as it once was.” That might seem obvious, but let Bouie elaborate: “Greatly reduced” is a bit of an understatement; if Fryer’s analysis is correct, educational achievement and “pre-market skills” account for a […]
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The Declining Significance of Discrimination.
In a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard economist Roland Fryer finds that discrimination isn’t as nearly as important to explaining racial inequality as it once was. He writes: There are large and important differences between blacks and whites in nearly every facet of life — earnings, unemployment, incarceration, […]
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Blame-the-Teacher Bandwagon.
As the National Education Association wraps up its annual meeting today in New Orleans, the rift between the Obama administration and the teachers unions is becoming ever more apparent. As the Times reports, this year’s meeting included no token speaker from the Department of Education, which has sparked disagreement from the unions over programs like […]
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Wal-Mart’s Online Education Ploy.
A couple of weeks ago, Wal-Mart announced that it was partnering with a for-profit online university to allow its employees to enroll in management courses. It got a price reduction and employees will be able to use their on-the-job training and tasks to earn some credits. One of the reasons Wal-Mart started the program is […]
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The Population Debate Gets Personal
It’s time to take a hard look at the environmental ramifications of First World procreation.
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The Generation Gap in Abortion Support.
A new Gallup poll shows that young people’s support for abortion has fallen. Only about a quarter of people aged 18 to 29 support access to abortion for any reason and without restriction. Though that’s bigger than the number of older Americans who support abortion without caveat, the gap is narrowing. But more disturbingly, that […]
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Gender Segregation at Work.
Via Sociological Images, a new report from Women’s Policy Research finds that jobs in the U.S. are typically segregated by gender. The divide is particularly acute in jobs that do not require a college education, a market in which men can find better-paying work in construction and women find more jobs as cashiers, for example. […]
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Contradictions in Sex Ed.
It wasn’t until after the breathless passage of the health-care bill that we all noticed the $250 million set aside to restore abstinence-only education funding. The programs had been allowed to expire in 2010 by Obama, who instead started programs to prevent teenage pregnancy. The inclusion was especially odd because it was inserted by Republican […]
