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Professor finds bias from white teachers toward Black students BRIANNA ROSARIO CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Dan Battey, an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education, said his study observed mathematics classrooms to see how the teachers interacted with students. RUTGERS.EDU
A Rutgers professor’s research on education systems found that that white teachers were three times more negative with Black students than with white students, showing that critical phases of development for Black children could be hindered through daily interactions with their teachers. Dan Battey, an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education, analyzed a data study of the interactions between teachers and students across racial lines. He
said most of the research literature was about discipline within schools leading to suspension, and also the school-to-prison pipeline. What researchers have not looked at is classrooms, so Battey’s data shows how small behaviors end up escalating to become more intense issues, particularly with white teachers. His study, titled “Racial Mis(Match) in Middle School Mathematics Classrooms: Relational Interactions as a Racialized Mechanism,” focuses on how white and Black students and white and Black teachers interact in
both urban and suburban settings, specifically in math classes. “We were interested in how the suburban-urban split kind of functions as well as the teacherrace (split) within the urban space. There weren’t many rural schools,” Battey said. Measuring the dimensions of the behavior, contributions and emotions of students, the data for his study found that white teachers were three times more negative with Black students, which played out in terms of how they dealt SEE STUDENTS ON PAGE 4
Rutgers study suggests that 9/11 1st-responders face cancer risks ELIZABETH KILPATRICK CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Judith Graber, an associate professor in the School of Public Health, said the purpose of the study was to help clinicians have a better understanding of head and neck cancers. RUTGERS.EDU
A recent Rutgers study found a correlation between first-responders from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and diagnoses of head and neck cancers. Judith Graber, an assistant research professor at the Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) and the lead author of the study, gave her insight about the findings to The Daily Targum. Graber and her colleagues looked at a number of patients in a case series that was also published. They noticed that some of the patients were police or in the military. They
were also younger than the average cases of head and neck cancer patients. It also seemed as though most of them had responded to the attacks on 9/11 itself. “Particularly, we looked from 2005 to 2012,” Graber said. “We saw the increase in the later period from 2009 to 2012, and that’s important. When you think about if there is, and we’re not saying yet whether there is, but if World Trade exposure does contribute to people getting cancers in the head and neck, then that makes sense in terms of the length of time it takes to get cancer.” The study found a 40 percent increase of diagnoses of these cancers between 2009 and 2012 for World Trade Center first-responders.
The purpose of this study is to explore the discoveries that can help clinicians working with those afflicted by the cancers have a better idea about what is going on, Graber said. Physicians and other clinicians who are treating these populations should be aware that there may be an increased risk for these cancers, and should raise their suspicions for head and neck cancers. Professor and medical director of the EOHSI Iris Udasin approached Graber in 2015 with the hypothesis that there is more head and neck cancers diagnoses among World Trade Center patients than the rest of the population. SEE RISKS ON PAGE 4
There was a 40-percent increase in the diagnoses of head and neck cancers between 2009 and 2012 for World Trade Center first-responders during the 9/11 attacks, which could potentially be caused by exposure to the site. FLICKR VOLUME 151, ISSUE 5 • UNIVERSITY ... 3 • OPINIONS ... 6 • INSIDE BEAT... 8• DIVERSIONS ... 9 • SPORTS ... BACK