African american Quote by Juan Enriquez

You have six math Ph.D. Caucasian gentlemen from the Northeast of the country, great. You put one more in the mix, you haven't added…

— Sallie Krawcheck

“math performance in Asian American women, built around the stereotypes of Asians being good at math, and women not. Half the subjects were primed…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“From 1979 to 1988, it concluded, Harvard admitted only 13.2 percent of Asian Americans, compared with 17.4 percent of whites. Applicants from California and…

— Daniel Golden

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

— Paul Achleitner

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts…

— Bill Gates

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Oddly enough, Asians are a much smaller 'minority' than African Americans in this country. But because Asians are so successful, college admission officers don't…

— Mike Gallagher

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

— David Hilbert

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will…

— Henry Louis Gates

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

— Robert Morgan

African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in…

— Chaka Fattah