My name is Matt
Bigelow and I am a journalist, writer and producer living in Nashville, Tennessee, where I work as the Online Content Manager for a medium-sized custom publishing company. I graduated from the White girls can skip, but black boys can’t stomp, study says
April 12th, 2007 by Matt“Teachers treat African-American males differently from their white and Latino counterparts based on negative stereotypes and perceptions, according to a dissertation presented Wednesday.”
From Medill Reports, a researcher who conducted her doctoral work jointly with the University of California Irvine and California State University Los Angeles looked at endemic racism in public schools in L.A. (Watch her proposal here).
Her research attempts to combine qualitative and quantitaive research numbers behind the differences in how African-American males are disciplined in schools as compared to other groups.
