DIFFERENT RACES

HAVE DIFFERENT
OPPORTUNITIES

Giovanna, Andrs, Mariana, Jorge, Monse

 US News and World Report released a list of the best public high schools in
the US
They ranked by how well students performed, how prepared the most
disadvantaged students were, and advanced coursework
Going to a good high school and strong academic preparation is one of the
most important factors colleges consider in the application process.
But Black and Latino are less likely to attend to a high school that offers
coursework, some schools even lack Algebra II, a basic admission
requirement.

Most of the top 20 high schools in the country are not very diverse:

Black students are only 8 percent of all students at these 20 high schools
Latinos, 12 percent.
12 of the top 20 high schools in the US had less than 5% Black enrollment,
while half had Latino below 5%.
Only three high schools had Latino student enrollments that exceeded 50%.

 Many high schools lack racial/ethnic diversity because they are located in
areas that lack Black and Latino families.
High Technology High School in New Jersey is in a neighborhood that is only
0.5% Black and 3.5% Latino (diversity of just 2% Black and Latino students
combined).
Stanton College Preparatory School in Jacksonville, Florida is surrounded
by an area of Black people, but only about a quarter of the high schools
population shows that.
Black and Latino students are less likely to enroll or in AP courses, even if
high schools might offer advanced courses, they are also less likely than
White or Asian students to benefit.

 Students benefit from academic coursework, there was an average

enrollment gap of 4% points between Blacks and Whites, and 1% point
between Latinos and Whites (this smaller gap might be Latino participation
in the Spanish Language exam).
Four of the schools had Black-White or Latino-White gaps that exceeded 5%
The Academy of Aerospace and Engineering has only 8% Blacks and 3%
Hispanics taking AP courses, while 15% of White students do so.
At BASIS Tucson North, over two-thirds of White students took all AP
exams, only two out of every five Black students did the same.

 The U.S. Department of Educations Office of Civil Rights put Alabamas Lee
County School District on notice this past fall because the predominantly
Black middle school did not offer Algebra, while the White middle school in
the same district did.
The Office of Civil Rights is collecting, analyzing, and policing the results of
resegregation, gerrymandering of public school attendance zones, and
curricular tracking are preserving hierarchies and perpetuating inequalities
that help Black and Latino students.
Colleges are not able to formally recognize some of these inequalities, we
need equitable access to rigorous academic preparation for Black and
Latino students. Regardless of whether Black and Latino students attend a
top high school, equitable access to academic preparation is their civil right.

Student Diversity Statistics

In 1980 388 students of
color were enrolled out of
10,616 students (3.7%)

APPLYING FOR SCHOOLS

(From Western Washington University)

APPLYING FOR SCHOOLS

Most universities in the U.S. are required to
meet a certain quota of people from different
races to keep running (Latino, African
American, Asian, etc.) They sometimes give
extra points on exams to these people.

He Dropped One Letter In His Name

While Applying For Jobs, And The
Responses Rolled In

Jos Zamora says he logged onto his computer every morning and
searched on internet for listings, applying to everything he felt qualified
for. He estimates that he sent out between 50 to 100 resumes a day. He
wasn't getting any responses, so he decided to drop the "s" in his name.
Jos Zamora became Joe Zamora, and a week later, he says his inbox was
full, he hadn't changed anything on his resume but the lettter.
Although digital job applications seem to be the ultimate colorblind hiring,
studies and applicants prove the opposite. Employers consciously or
subconsciously discriminate names that souns black or Latino, as reported
by the New York Times. One much-cited study found that applicants with
White-sounding names received 50% more callbacks than black-sounding
names.
"I had to drop a letter to get a title," Zamora said, "Sometimes I don't
even think people know or are conscious or aware that they're judging
- even if it's by name - but I think we all do it all the time."

RECAP
Racial background affects acceptance.
Name changes perspective/ foreshadows
race and culture.
Stereotypes limit opportunities.

People from non white races tend to have to

work harder to demonstrate their potential.