Report: US Teachers Beat Black School Children Twice As Much As Whites

A new report reveals black school children get beaten twice as much as whites in the U.S. with out-of-school-suspension rates four times higher.

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作者 teleSUR
Third graders Danielle Levin, 8; Paige Simpson, 8; and Daniella Gama-Diaz, 8; from left, work on a lesson at Eagle Elementary School in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., Thursday, March 9, 2006. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

There was at least 57,000 incidents of educators beating Black children in the United States in a single year, according to a recent study by the Brookings Institute, highlighting that "Black children are twice as likely as White children to be subject to corporal punishment" at school. The disproportionality in corporal punishment in the U.S.

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The Big Gamble: Deritiative Trading Remains The Wild West Of Financial Markets

The total value of financial derivatives may be 20 years of total world product, much of it set up as nothing more than a gamble. But it remains unregulated because of its complexity and international unwillingness to tackle the problem.

Erik Hare
作者 Erik Hare
Anatomy of A Derivative

In a paper published in 1999, Martin Mayer of the Brookings Institute wrote, “The system is easily gamed, and it sacrifices the great strength of banks as financial intermediaries -- their knowledge of their borrowers, and their incentive to police the status of the loan.” In the 15 years that have passed since “The Danger of Derivatives” was

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