Ethnicity Content / Ethnicity Content for ΢Ƶ en Ethnic Diversity in Schools May Be Good for Students’ Grades, a ΢Ƶ Study Suggests /news/ethnic-diversity-schools-may-be-good-grade-point-averages-uc-davis-study-suggests <p>Early adolescents’ grades were higher when they socialized with peers from other ethnicities, according to the findings of a University of California, Davis, study that looked at the lunching habits of more than 800 sixth-graders in three states.</p> September 11, 2017 - 10:14am Karen Michele Nikos /news/ethnic-diversity-schools-may-be-good-grade-point-averages-uc-davis-study-suggests ΢Ƶ to Present Research on How Demographics Affect Elections /news/uc-davis-present-research-how-demographics-affect-elections-0 <h3>What:</h3> <p>“As California goes, So Goes the Nation? U.S. Demographic Change and the Latino Vote,” Mindy Romero, founder and director of the California Civic Engagement Project, will be presenting new research that addresses the frequent question in the media, and by political analysts, of how demographic change in the United States will affect the nation's political landscape. For instance, there is speculation about how Latino population growth will affect the 2016 U.S. elections.</p> January 25, 2016 - 2:51pm Karen Michele Nikos /news/uc-davis-present-research-how-demographics-affect-elections-0