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Asian groups, White House seek better race data

June 22, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Suzanne Gamboa The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On paper, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders appear to be a high-achieving bunch with few of the challenges faced by other racial and ethnic minorities in U.S. schools.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, 2013, American Community Survey, Asian Americans, Bhutan, Census Bureau, Don Yu, Education Department, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Native Hawaiians, New York University, Nicholas Jones, Pacific Islanders, Pearl Imada Iboshi, Robert Teranishi, Vol 32 No 26 | June 22 - June 28, White House Initiative, attention

Census seeks changes in how it measures race

August 18, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

To keep pace with rapidly changing notions of race, the Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys that would treat “Hispanic” as a distinct category regardless of race, end use of the term “Negro,” and offer new ways to identify Middle Easterners …

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, African Americans, American Indian Alaska Native, Angelo Falcon, Arab American Institute, Arab Americans, Asian American Justice Center, Asian Americans, Asian Indian, Census, Census Bureau, Census Director Robert Groves, Middle Easterners, Nicholas Jones, Terry Minnis, Vietnamese

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