Race and Education

Conversation Of The Week XXXV: Supreme Court Revisits Race In College Admissions

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D. A. Barber

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday, Oct. 10, in the first case the Court has taken up in nearly a decade on the use of race in higher education admissions.

The Court was petitioned in February this year to hear Fisher v. University of Texas, which could be a precursor to a shift in affirmative action and how U.S. colleges and universities use the race of student applicants to attain higher diversity on campuses.

First Report In Washington’s New School Accountability System

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Donna Gordon Blankenship - Associated Press

SEATTLE (AP) — State education officials on Thursday, Sept. 27 released their first report for a new way in looking at how Washington public schools are doing at teaching kids reading and math.

The new school accountability system is designed to help local officials focus on closing the achievement gaps between kids of different ethnic and economic groups. It is Washington's answer to the federal education law known as "No Child Left Behind." Washington has been granted a waiver to take a different approach to identifying and helping failing schools.

With 2014 Withdrawal Approaching Afghans Fear Resurgence Of Ethnic Fighting

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Nobody wants a repeat of the bloody ethnic fighting that followed the Soviet exit from Afghanistan in the 1990s — least of all 32-year-old Wahidullah who was crippled by a bullet that pierced his spine during the civil war.

Yet as the Afghan war began its 12th year on Sunday, Oct. 7, fears loom that the country will again fracture along ethnic lines once international combat forces leave by the end of 2014.

Central Figure In Miss. Integration Defies Labels

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — James Meredith is a civil-rights icon who hates the term "civil rights."

It's as if civil rights were somehow set apart from — well, rights.

“When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult," said the black man who 50 years ago inflamed the anger of white Mississippi by quietly demanding admission to the state's segregated flagship university.

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