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Principal Hired for Jefferson
vice to the Superintendent. That
panel included students, teachers,
em y o f A rts and T ech n o lo g y and parents and representatives o f the
the A cad em y o f S c ie n c e and PTSA and the com m unity.
T ec hnology (both to open this
Dudley has a master's degree in
S eptem ber), and the A cadem y for educational adm inistration at the
Y oung Men and the A cadem y for University o f North Texas and is a
Y oung W om en (to open in S ep doctoral fellow in the Cooperative
tem ber 2007).
Superintendency Program at the
The Jefferson Design Team rec University o f Texas. He replaces
om m ended that Portland Public Larry D ashiell, Jefferson principal
Schools actively recruit candidates since 2002.
nationally for Jefferson’s princi
Cynthia Harris, a school adm in
pal. T op candidates were inter istrator from C ontra C osta Unified
viewed by a panel that offered ad- School District in California, has
co n tin u ed
fr o m M etro
also been hired as anew area direc
tor for all schools in the Jefferson
cluster.
She will w ork to integrate the
high school refo rm s into the e n
tire v isio n fo r Je ffe rso n are a
sc h o o ls. T h at v isio n in c lu d es
n u rtu rin g a p o w erfu l arts and
te c h n o lo g y s tr a n d th r o u g h
O ckley G reen A rts S chool ( K-8),
d ev elo p in g the city 's first k in d er
garten through high school In
te rn a tio n a l B a cc ala u reate p ro
gram . building on the elem en tary
sch o o ls' su ccesses as they ex-
p and to K-8 and in stitu tin g a c u l
ture o f ex c ellen c e in teaching and
learning.
Harris also will work withelemen-
tary and middle schools in South
w est P ortland's W ilson cluster,
supporting the principals in further
developm ent o f the arts em phasis
there and continuing to drive stu
dent achievem ent higher.
Harris has worked as principal of
an inner-city elementary school. She
began her career as an elem entary
teacher in the O akland U nified
School District.
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S u p e r v is o r C e le b r a tio n
W orking-class A frican-A m eri
can s are being shut out o f the
legal p ro fe ssio n b ec au se they
c a n n o t a f f o rd to a tte n d law
schools w hose tuition is kept high
by c o stly e x p e n d itu res m andated
on them by the A m erican Bar
A sso c ia tio n .
The tuition at a private ABA law
school currently is about $30,000 a
year — far beyond the m eans o f a
w orking-class fam ily, according to
a book on the subject.
“ D e m a n d in g e x t r a v a g a n t
w ages, w orking co n d itio n s, and
lifesty les for law p ro fe sso rs, and
d em an d in g plush fac ilities and
libraries, the A BA stan d ard s re-
own Commission on Racial and Eth
nic D iversity in the Legal Profes
sion found m inorities w oefully un
der-represented in the legal profes
sion. A ccording to the rep o rt's
author El izabeth C ham bliss, a New
York Law School professor:
"The legal profession already is
one o f the least racially integrated
professions in the United States
when all four m inority groups (A f
rican-A m erican. H ispanic, Asian
American, N ative A m erican) are
aggregated,” C ham bliss said. “A f
rican-A m ericans, too, are repre
sented at low er levels than in many
com parable professions.”
She said in 2000 A frican-A m eri
cans made uponly 3.9 percent o f all
lawyers, com pared with 4.4 percent
o f physicians, 5.6 percent o f co l
lege and university professors, 7.8
percent o f com puter scientists and
7.9 percent o f accountants and au
ditors.
Students Benefit from Ethnically Diverse Schools
They feel safer,
less bullied and
less lonely
Middle-school students are more
likely to feel safer, less bullied and
less lonely when they are in ethni
cally diverse schools, says a new
study by UC Davis and UCLA psy
chologists.
The study offers new em pirical
ev idence for the psychological
benefits o f integrated schools, say
the researchers, A drienne N ishina
o f the UC Davis D epartm ent o f
Human and C om m unity D evelop
ment, Jaana Juvonen o f the UCLA
D epartm ent o f P sychology and
Sandra Graham o f the UCLA D e
partm ent o f Education.
Ina survey o f more than 70 sixth-
g rade classro o m s in 11 public
middle school s serv i ng poorer com
m unities in Southern California, the
researchers com pared classroom s
with low er and higher classroom
diversity am ong African A m eri
cans, Asian and Pacific Islanders,
C aucasians and Latinos.
"O ur study focused on the ef
fects o f ethnic diversity on Latino
and A frican-A m erican students,"
said Nishina, an assistant profes
sor o f human developm ent at UC
Davis.
"H ow ever, we expect that stu
d en ts from o th e r eth n ic b ac k
grounds would experience sim ilar
Ethnically diverse schools offer psychological benefits for
students, according to a new study.
benefits. O ther research at the col
lege level has found that students
from all ethnic backgrounds may
benefit from ethnically diverse en
vironm ents."
Latino and A frican-A m erican
w ere the tw o ethnic groups repre
sented across all the classroom s in
this sample o f public middle school
youth in the Los Angeles area.
The study also has im plications
for student harassment.
"B u lly in g hap p en s in every
school, and m any students are con-
cerned about their safety," said
Juvonen, lead author o f the study.
"H ow ever, our analysis show s stu
dents feel safer in ethnically d i
verse classroom s and schools."
N ishina says that the study has
w ider im plications beyond the psy
chological benefits for students.
"We know that when students
have positive social and psycho
logical experiences at school, they
do better academ ically," she said.
Citing a recent Suprem e Court
decision on ethnic diversity on
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college cam puses, the other co
author. G raham , underscored the
role o f ethnic diversity on college
cam puses as a way to prom ote bet
ter learning.
"The skills needed for young
people to successfully negotiate
to d a y 's in c r e a s in g ly g lo b a l
econom y can best be developed
through exposure to very diverse
people, cu ltu res, and points o f
view," Graham said. "Diversity ben
efits everyone: in fact, it iscritical in
contem porary Am erica and espe
cially in states like California, where
the population ischangingdram ati
cally."
The psychologists found in their
study that the more ethnically d i
verse classroom s were, A frican
American and Latino students felt
safer in school, less harassed by
peers and less lonely. T hey also
had higher self-w orth.
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ABA standards regulate every
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Hagan notes.
Pointing out how great pow er is
concentrated in the hands o f the
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