Group items tagged race - Educational Equity

You don’t have to believe that diversity is an end in itself. In fact, I will argue that is important as a means to an end.
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What accounts for the decidedly non-diverse results in places like Silicon Valley?
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One is that deliberate racisms keeps people out.
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Another is that white men are simply the ones that show up, because of some combination of aptitude and effort (which it is depends on who you ask), and that admissions to, say Y Combinator, simply reflect the lack of diversity of the applicant pool, nothing more
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Some populations are more interested in science, in math, in business, and in taking risks than others. But all of the research I am aware of suggests that these differences are extremely small – not nearly big enough to explain what we’re observing in places like Y Combinator.
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This is why I personally care about diversity: it’s the canary in the coal mine for meritocracy.
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When we see extremely skewed demographics, we have very good reason to suspect that something is wrong with our selection process, that it’s not actually as meritocratic as it could be.
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There’s plenty of good research on the subject of team performance that shows that diverse teams outperform homogeneous teams on many different kinds of tasks.
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Wherever selection processes have been studied scientifically, errors have been found. These errors are called “implicit bias” in the research literature, which causes a lot of confusion, because the word “bias” connotes malevolence.
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And what the grownups have discovered, through painstaking research, is that it is extremely easy for systems to become biased, even if none of the individual people in those systems intends to be biased
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they had performers audition behind a physical screen, so that the judges could not see their race or gender while they played.
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When rating performers anonymously, it turned out that men and women played equally well, on average.
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According to the research on implicit bias, our selection processes are making some huge, obvious mistakes.
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But pattern recognition is just a fancy word for bias.
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I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out.
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It turns out that when people are in a situation that defies stereotypes, reminding them of the stereotype diminishes their performance.
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stereotype threat.
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I think this helps explain why asking more minorities to apply to these programs doesn’t work. Consciously thinking about proving a stereotype wrong impairs performance.
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Explicit diversity programs have the solution exactly backwards
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Education Week: Study Finds Minority Students Get Harsher Punishments - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...07discipline_ep.h31.html

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shared by jeffery heil on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached

Black and Hispanic students are far more likely to be kicked out of school when they break the rules, including some that often have nothing to do with keeping students safe, according to a new report from a civil rights research and advocacy group
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there is no evidence that banishing some students will improve the education of classmates still in school, while studies have show that punishing students increases their risk of dropping out.
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students who miss class time for misbehavior are at a greater risk of missing out on educational opportunities, but schools only reluctantly turn to alternatives for managing students’ behavior
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28 percent of African-American middle school boys had been suspended at least once, compared with 10 percent of white males nationwide. For girls, it was 18 percent of black students, compared with 4 percent of white students.
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possessing or using a cellphone at school, almost 33 percent of first-time black middle school offenders were suspended, compared with 4.5 percent of white students. For dress-code violations, 38.3 percent of black students for whom it was a first-time offense were suspended, vs. 6.6 percent of white students.
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unconscious bias likely plays a part in the disparities
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many minority students have teachers with less experience.
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arlier this year, a Fairfax County, Va., teenager committed suicide, which his family and friends connected to a seven-week suspension he received for his first serious school rule violation.
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than half of all Texas middle and high school students were suspended or expelled at least once between 7th and 12th grades, but the punishments were applied unevenly between students of different races, abilities, and schools, and students disciplined with those methods were more likely to repeat a grade or drop out of school than students who were not punished in the same way.
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