Recruitment of a research study on the effectiveness of anti-racer formation for white children is waiting at the University of Texas in Austin. This follows a complaint with the office of the Department of Education for Civil Rights that the project is racially discriminatory, among other criticism.
The University is now reviewing the study. Numerous teachers are asking the university to allow research to continue during internal and external reviews, arguing that the UT Austin Institutional Review Board previously approved the project, as well as peer reviewers during a competitive internal financing process.
These teachers warn that the investigation of the fall due to external complaints threatens the integrity of the study at hand and, in general, free investment chills of timely subjects, such as antiratism.
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UT Austin "Leadership Decision of Pause Elements of the Mera Based Presentation of a complaint, and before any assessment of whether the complaint raises a credible claim, compromises the integrity of research and academic freedom to carry out research and draw conclusions rooted in the evidence, "said the 18 education teachers in Austin in a letter. President Jay Hartzell and Provost Sharon Wood.
The study "is sensitive to time, since it requires the deployment of materials and evaluations according to a very strict schedule that is already committed," the letter continues. "The leadership decision to pause the aspects of the study has the effect of legitimizing the actions that, however, unfounded, seek to repress the academic search of truth and the advance of scientific knowledge."
gokar!, Or children against racism, recently began recruiting up to 200 pairs of children and their caregivers, advertising opportunities to "participate in dialogue on anti-black racism with their preschool children at home". Study participants, who will see videos for professional children and will receive discussion guidelines on these issues, must be identified as target. Children must be 4 to 5 years old and not yet in kindergarten. googleg.cmd.push (function () googleg.display ("dfp-ad-article_in_article"););
The purpose of the study, according to a recruitment faceante, is to explore "general commitment to Gokar! The program, as well as the potential of the program to reduce bias and increase racism awareness." The total time required is up to 7.5 hours. Compensation is a $ 25 gift card and an additional $ 20 gift card to complete an optional main interview.
The study hit a speed blow after Mark Perry, an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, presented a complaint with the Dallas OCR office that alleges violations Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race.
UT Austin "Blamely violating Title VI By participating illegally in racial discrimination on the basis of skin color promoting, sponsors, offering and marketing a discriminatory program that is involved in racial segregation," he wrote Perry to the OCR. "In violation of Title VI, the Gokar of the University! The program operates illegally and exclusively for caregivers and their children from 4 to 5 years old who must be identified as whites and illegally exclude and discriminate and exclude non-white caregivers and their children from 4 to 5 years on the basis of his race and skin color. "
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