[ cheers and applause ] diablo cody. [ cheers and applause ] what is happening? i want to thank jason wrightman who i consider a member of my family. i m in awe of his talent as a filmmaker. most of all i want to thank my family for loving me exactly the way i am. [ applause ] and then i m proud to receive this objet d art on behalf of mr. spellman who writes he cannot be here for a variety of reasons, all of them spicy. [ laughter ] he s dumbfounded, absolutely flummoxed. he never expected any recognition for writing around the world in 80 days.
school football game. but, you know, ame amanda, o the other hand, we also have a major obesity problem in this country, a rise in type two diabetes. so talk to me specifically about the example you give in this article of spellman college, where they needed to move the money not totally out of athletics but took their million dollars they were spending and decided to use it on sort of campus wide recreation programs and fitness programs instead. yeah, it s a radical notion, right? the president of spellman was watching a basketball game at her college one saturday, and she thought to herself, you know what, these young women are not going to play basketball professionally and probably not even recreationally through the next four or five, six decades of their lives. why don t we flip it? and instead of spending $1 million on 4% of our students who are athletes, spend it on all of the students. and they started having races and more exercise classes and it s too soon to say if it w
college? yes, much more likely. why? white schools tend to have more resources, so they have more tax base, they tend to have higher qualified teachers, they tend to be in districts with more money. they also have powerful peer groups in those schools that are geared toward college and graduation. mahmoud s charter schools have the children focused on college from the moment they walk in the door. the second grade boy s classroom is named moore house. then there s spellman, lincoln, usc. our success runs counter and is a threat to people like myron orfield that has the theory that all we need to do is to sit african-american children next to white children and they re going to learn. scores for black children at integrated suburban schools are
mahmoud s charter schools have the children focused on college from the moment they walk in the door. the second grade boy s classroom is named moore house. then there s spellman, lincoln, usc. our success runs counter and is a threat to people like myron orfield that has the theory that all we need to do is to sit african-american children next to white children and they re going to learn. scores for black children at integrated suburban schools are higher than they are for black children in the city of minneapolis. but there are still large achievement gaps. the point is, you may get a bump in achievement, but it doesn t change the game. i m talking about game-changing achievement at our school, and we re not focused on who they re
proposal. if it s tied to federal support, my university, your university, they re going to opt out am so the point, because they don t really need the federal money. they have huge, billion-dollar endowments. so if they don t want the ratings or they don t want to be rated, they ll just opt out, and that s not containing costs for students. yeah, well, tulane doesn t, but tulane wishes it had an endowment of that size. but that said, it is true that some of the most vulnerable universities and colleges, those who actually take some of the students from your sixth grade, you know, class, are the ones that may be most hit by this. we were looking at historically black college and university dwrau graduation rates. at the top, they are as good as any elite university in terms of their rates of graduation. spellman, 79%. howard, 64%. hampton, up over 54. but when you go down to the bottom, the bottom five, they actually really are quite abysmal. down to 10%, 16% graduation rates. what