Especially for Teachers
Teachers Under Fire
Is Blood Ever Blue? Science Teachers Want to Know!
Teachers Gone Wild

Resources (documents)

Bill Foster’s Letter
The Grubbs and Gibbs Memorandum: Require A Religious Reading of the Evolutionary Record in Public Schools

Education and Public Science: Creationism, Intelligent Design, Home Schooling
The Myers - Rue Debate And Why They Had to Taser Me
The Bible-Thumping Grinch […]

Study finds disparities in mortgages by race
From the New York Times:

Home buyers in predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhoods in New York City were more likely to get their mortgages last year from a subprime lender than home buyers in white neighborhoods with similar income levels, according to a new analysis of home loan data […]

Apparently, Barack Obama is calling for the firing of a John Tanner Justice Department official for making certain remarks in a recent speech. Tanner was speaking about drivers licenses as voter ID’s and the possibility that this would limit the franchise for selected groups such as the elderly, who may often not posses such […]

According to the New York Times:

James D. Watson, who shared the 1962 Nobel prize for deciphering the double-helix of DNA, apologized “unreservedly” yesterday for comments reported this week suggesting that black people, over all, are not as intelligent as whites.
He had earlier been quoted as saying “All our social policies are based on the fact […]

African Lynne Simpson, 2001 winner of Augrabies Ultra-Marathon in South Africa
On one hand, everyone knows that the differences between humans that are often categorized as “racial traits” are either overstated or irrelevant. All humans have essentially the same basic potentials, and the genetic differences that do exist between people are not sorted out […]

… appears to have a speed limit of about 5 MPH, and as all drivers know, there IS no 5 miles per hour.
I remember a story my father and his friend Eddy used to tell now and then. The two of them were (at one time) insurance salesmen, and the company […]

From yesterday’s Yahoo News:
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The state House and Senate approved separate resolutions apologizing for slavery Tuesday — one day after Confederate Memorial Day, an official state holiday.
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Neither resolution will become official unless approved by the other chamber and signed by the governor. The House passed its resolution with an unrecorded voice vote; the […]

Glenn Loury will not remember this, but I vaguely knew him when I worked at the Kennedy School of government. He was a newly hired junior faculty member. I was working for one of the senior economists, and his responsibilities included running a bi-weekly seminar with mostly in-house speakers, attended by a large portion […]

Much to the consternation of everyone in England, as well as everyone in Scotland and, by the way, Ireland (a very ethnocentric and racist set of cultures, by and large), all of these people are kissin’ cousins, it turns out.
…geneticists who have tested DNA throughout the British Isles are … struck by the overall genetic […]

As you probably know, everyone should drink milk. Lots and lots and lots of milk. All your life. Or so says the American Dairy Industry, often using those sexy posters of famous people with milk smeared on their faces.
The truly amazing thing about those posters is that the people in them […]

There is a disparity in mortality rates in the US between “African American” and “white” women. This has always been thought to arise from difference in access to care, and this is probably still the main reason.
However new research Britian suggests that there may be another factor involved. It turns out that pre-menopausal […]

Racism and it’s various manifestations such as eugenics is a Janus Faced monster of human society. One side speaks to people’s fear and hate, and is social and political. It speaks a sermon to the angry and downtrodden who love to hear that their “race” is superior, or to the social managers and […]

This is about a study that uses a classroom-based experiment to demonstrate the role of socialization and social context (as opposed to “racial” factors) on academic performance. This is a must read post on Cognitive Daily:

A fifteen-minute exercise may help overcome a lifetime of racial stereotyping

February issue of Cultural Anthropology includes a paper by Michael Montoya on race and diabetes detection. It is a reificiation of what is now common knowledge among most people who study race, but not so much beyond this sphere.
“Although it’s true that certain ethnic groups have higher rates of diabetes, our social […]

Earlier this week I watched (briefly, against my will) a few minutes of the MSNBC commentary show “Tucker.” Tucker is the obnoxious cryptoneocon who used to wear a bow tie. He had Pat Buchanan (a regular on his show) and some other guy a bit to the right of both Tucker and Buchanan […]