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New Study: African Americans and Hispanics Feel Unwelcome in Metro Boston
April 20, 2005
African Americans and Hispanics in Metro Boston claim that experiences of racial discrimination are a regular part of their lives, according to a new study by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard. Over half of African Americans and four out of ten Hispanics say they are treated with less respect, offered worse service, called names or insulted, or confronted with another form of discrimination at least a few times a month.
New Research Exposes Hidden High School Drop Out Crisis; Acute Among California’s African-American And Latino Students
March 23, 2005
A previously hidden crisis of high school dropouts in California was revealed today by researchers convening for The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University’s conference “Dropouts in California: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis.” The shocking new data reveal that high school graduation rates in California are much worse than reported by the state, and are alarmingly low for African-American and Latino students.
Disparity in Nation’s Schools: Race and Poverty Linked to Educational Inequality and Higher Dropout Rates
January 13, 2005
Today, The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) announces a new study showing that public school students across the nation are increasingly segregated by race, poverty, and educational opportunity. The study, Why Segregation Matters: Poverty and Educational Inequality demonstrates that the nation’s shockingly high dropout problem is squarely concentrated in heavily minority high schools in big cities.
Rapidly Growing Minority Workforce Faces Barriers To Good Jobs In Metro Boston
December 7, 2004
The Latino workforce increased over 10 times faster than the rate of total employment growth in Metro Boston during the 1990s, and the Asian workforce increased almost 20 times faster, yet people of color face substantial challenges in obtaining employment, in reaching locations of rapid job growth, in earning a livable income, and in battling discrimination, according to a new report by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Latinos and blacks face the greatest hurdles, yet certain Asian populations struggle as well—especially those with less education and those working in the shrinking manufacturing sector or low-paying service jobs.
The Civil Rights Project’s New Book Confronts the Dropout Crisis in America
December 7, 2004
Many urban high schools have become “dropout factories” that send “hundreds of students off a figurative cliff” each year, according to a new book edited by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University entitled Dropouts in America: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis. With President Bush and the nation's Governors committed to focusing on high schools in upcoming educational reform efforts, this book provides information essential to stemming the dangerously large numbers of students--disproportionately poor and minority--who flee our nation's schools before obtaining high school diplomas.
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