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Finding it and nurturing it remain entirely consistent with the mission of higher education and, indeed, vital to our democracy. More than in any other setting, students who are raised in homogenous neighborhoods and schools first encounter difference — class, racial, ethnic and religious — in college. We should remember that these sorts of learning opportunities are relatively new in the history of higher education. For hundreds of years, many universities that today proudly champion a diverse society promoted and perpetuated class, racial and gender hierarchies. Like Bard College, schools could create early college programs, which allow high school students to take and earn college credits.
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Disparity Doesn’t Necessarily Imply Racism
  + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Roland Fryer | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
She did her best to teach sixth-graders subject-verb agreement minutes after being spat on by their parents. The first discussion I can remember happened in 1988, when I was 11, after a visit to McDonald’s . After ordering, my grandmother paid with a crisp $20 bill from her pocketbook, and the cashier put the change directly on the counter. When we got to the parking lot, she was incensed. White woman didn’t want to touch me.” I had noticed it too, but thought the cashier was being nice, trying to avoid passing on her own germs.
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