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Study: Not enough minority teachers in classrooms, gap attributed to bias and lower college graduation rates

By | 11.09.11 | 7:10 pm

Findings released by a left-leaning think tank today demonstrate minority students will soon out-number whites, but a dearth of minority instructors is holding back students of color who could benefit from teachers with similar backgrounds.

Only 45 Percent of Arkansans Say Obama Was Born in America

By | 08.25.09 | 1:00 pm

Public Policy Polling dips into Arkansas, one of the few states where Barack Obama won fewer votes for president than John Kerry, and finds that only 45 percent of Arkansans are confident of the president’s citizenship. Thirty-one percent of them say he was born outside of the country; the More…

Fifty-One Percent of North Carolina Whites Doubt Obama’s Citizenship

By | 08.11.09 | 12:36 pm

More from that PPP poll: That high number of North Carolinians who say Obama wasn’t born in the United States is largely built on white voters. Thirty percent of white voters say Obama is foreign-born, 49 percent say he was born in the United More…