• DIVERSITY IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES? Racial discrimination, economic breach? 

Extract from Scott Kurashige´s Blog Post (click here to read the whole article)

"Indeed, the trend at Michigan is hardly encouraging. Black undergraduate enrollment peaked at 9.2 percent in 1996-97. It declined to 7 percent by 2006 and dropped to 4.7 percent in 2013. Despite the growth of the Latino population locally and nationally, Latino undergraduate enrollment peaked at 5 percent in 2003 and 2005 and has since fallen to 4.4 percent. Native-American enrollment plateaued at 1 percent from 2004 to 2007 before plummeting to 0.2 percent from 2010 to 2013".

• Related to this topic, read this article by Katrina Schwartz in Mind Shift : Facing Race Issues In the Classroom: How To Connect With Students 

Here you can read an extract from the article:

"Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools noticed a troubling trend, one that’s common across the country. Although the district’s overall performance on standardized tests and other achievement measurements are high, when the data is broken down by race and ethnicity, students of color are being left behind. In the 2012-2013 school year, more than 83 percent of the white high school students in the district passed the end of year tests, but just about 48 percent of the Hispanic students did and only 28 percent of the African-American students passed.”