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Tony Luong / The New York Times / … The Affirmative Action That Colleges Really Need
Universities want to protect the status quo, because it’s easy for them.
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Robert Fullerton / Getty Minneapolis Saw That NIMBYism Has Victims
Single-family zoning hurts a lot of people. In Minnesota’s largest city, reformers put them front and center.
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Martin Bureau / AFP / Getty An Imperfect SAT Adversity Score Is Better Than Just Ignoring Adversity
The College Board’s simple, straightforward indicator will make schools pay attention to the tough odds some applicants face.
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Reuters Segregation Is Preventable. Congress Just Isn’t Trying.
Again and again, federal efforts to promote integration have been whittled down almost to nothing.
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Elise Amendola / AP A New Call to End Legacy Admissions
First-generation student groups are protesting affirmative-action practices that privilege the relatives of alumni—even though their own families could one day benefit.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The New Champions of School Integration
The Department of Education killed a federal program supporting diversity efforts, but the fight to desegregate the nation’s classroom is far from over.
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Reuters Can Vouchers Save Failing Schools?
The Obama administration invested $7 billion in a school-improvement initiative that didn’t work. Is there a successful replacement?
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Evan Semon / Reuters Is Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed?
America’s classrooms are responsible for preparing students to be good citizens. This election indicates that they may be failing to do so.
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Matt Rourke / AP Why Did It Take So Long for Class-Based School Integration to Take Hold?
Half a century ago, the Coleman Report revealed that socioeconomic diversity is key to removing racial inequalities in education.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters How Low-Income Students Are Fitting In at Elite Colleges
People from the richest quarter of the population outnumber those from the poorest quarter by almost 25 to one at the nation’s most selective institutions.
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Jason Reed / Reuters School Integration’s Comeback
President Obama’s budget includes a new $120 million grant to support school integration.
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Phil Roeder / Flickr The Future of Affirmative Action
How a conservative decision at the Supreme Court could lead to a liberal outcome
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Race-Based Admissions: The Right Goal, but the Wrong Policy
With economic inequality growing to record highs, students and universities would be better served by reformulating their affirmative-action policies along class lines.
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Bart Everson/Flickr Saving School Choice Without Undermining Poor Communities
Republicans and Democrats are at odds over how to overhaul No Child Left Behind so it better supports low-income children. But what if they're missing the point?
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Carolyn Kaster/AP The Genius of Obama's Two-Year College Proposal
The plan's potential to promote socioeconomic and racial integration is critical to advancing higher education.
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What’s Next for Affirmative Action?
How Barack Obama's role as America's first black president could affect race-based preference programs
