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Fight or Flight

Ted Shaw and other diversity proponents retool while Ward Connerly gloats.

August 22, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Board narrows education commissioner list to 7

TALLAHASSEE Fla. The chancellor who oversees Florida’s elementary and secondary schools and her predecessor are among seven semifinalists in the State Board of Education’s nationwide search for a new education commissioner.

August 13, 2007

Students

Tougher test requirements hurt Ohio student performance scores

COLUMBUS Ohio New science and social studies tests brought down the otherwise improving proficiency scores of Ohio’s K-12 students last year and contributed to a decline in the number of districts and schools receiving the highest “excellent” rating, figures released Tuesday show.

August 13, 2007

Students

Black History AP Course Faces Obstacles by College Board

Some K-12 school district officials have proposed a remedy to the lack of Black student enrollment in Advanced Placement classes: an AP course in African-American History.

August 12, 2007

Latinx

Competitiveness Bill Seeks To Attract Minorities To STEM Fields

A multi-billion dollar competitiveness bill headed for President Bush’s desk has several key provisions to attract more minority students to careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

August 12, 2007

Students

The Weight of One Man’s Opinion

While casting the deciding vote in the recent K-12 desegregation case, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion left some room to maneuver.

July 25, 2007

Students

Best & Brightest: Obligation To Native Culture, Community Fuels Academic Drive

Karletta Chief has come a long way since the days when, as a Stanford University undergrad, her father had to sell the family’s cattle to cover the costs of her engineering books. Such were the sacrifices of the Navajo first-generation college student and her parents, a minister and a Navajo weaver.

July 18, 2007

Students

Perspectives: Abandoning Brown and ‘[Race]ing’ Backwards on K-12 Education

The recent, well-publicized U.S. Supreme Court desegregation cases make it much tougher for school districts to achieve racial diversity and eliminate racially isolated public school systems. In addressing the use of race by Seattle and Louisville school districts in student assignments, Chief Justice John Roberts declared, “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

July 18, 2007

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Houghton Mifflin to Buy Harcourt for $4 Billion

BOSTON Educational textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin Co. agreed Monday to buy the remaining U.S. units of scientific and medical publisher Reed Elsevier for $4 billion in cash and stock, creating what could become the largest K-12 publisher in the country in terms of market share.

July 17, 2007

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Arkansas Historians Fear State History Will Be Removed From K-12 Curriculum

LITTLE ROCK Many historians, upset with what they expected Saturday would be a watering down of the teaching of Arkansas history in the public schools, will seek a one-year moratorium on new teaching guidelines that are to go into effect this fall.

July 15, 2007

HBCUs

Virginia’s experience – Virginia’s Governor L. Douglas Wilder’s push for accessible education for Black students

Despite what some viewed as the `ideal’ Black leadership team, education gains were limited during Wilder administration

July 14, 2007

Latinx

Who speaks for you? – representatives of colored people in government’s higher education policy

The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans has a new director, but who is speaking for other underrepresented groups?

July 11, 2007