One-Hour Exercise Can Change Minority Students' Lives

What could you do for an hour in the first year of college that would improve minority students' grades over the next three years, reduce the racial achievement gap by half and, years later, make students happier and healthier? The answer, Stanford psychologists suggest, involves an exercise to help make students feel confident they belong in college.

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• education
• psychology
• minority students
• self esteem
• academic achievement

[invalidacess]

What is this "one hour excercise"?

[enedene1]

When will you stop looking who is which color, what's the percentage of women/men black/white/asian compared to general population percentage?

By doing that you create inequality, because the criteria is not quality but something that you usually accuse other people of, race, gender etc.

[grunder20]

stanford all the way!!

[felpaluche]

Adjustment is key.

[grantrichard22]

You do not have to a "minority" for this, I am a poor white guy from the Mississippi Delta going to a University full of upper middle class white kids who know nothing of the things I been through. I seriously doubt Stanford has considerable number of students who grew up along the poverty line.

[gg0BSBZerg]

@invalidacess You can read the "related article" in the information section

[gg0BSBZerg]

@invalidacess 

[gg0BSBZerg]

you can read the "related news article" in the info section.

[JeanKM1]

Misleading title, because you did not tell us what the exercise was!

[CHNOPSXXY]

@freeparati The bulk of our industry now resides on Communist Chinese soil. Here at home, there are fewer opportunities to go around. Rather than have fair and honest competition for, selection, jobs and promotion, a wrongheaded subgroup in academics, corporate and government leadership, will sometimes insist that business, govt. and academia, should be game their selection criteria to create a population that "reflects" society. To HELL with that. We MUST move forward to a MERIT based society.

[freeparati]

@CHNOPSXXY

How are White men being denied opportunity? Is it because White women have been the biggest benefactors of Affirmative Action?