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XU: We are putting way too much weight in this racial narrative, and we're diminishing our meritocracy.

Word of Adams’ promise to make masks optional in city schools starting Monday, March 7, barring a surge in cases, spread quickly among kids and teachers returning from mid-winter break Monday.

For many years I lived across the street from Stuyvesant High School, Manhattan's elite public school, and would sometimes get a ride from a father of one of the students. He was a cab driver from Pakistan who liked to strike up conversations with his passengers.

The principle of equality should strengthen the ideal of merit, not obstruct it. 

The virtues of a meritocracy may be lost on Harvard students like that queer Middle Easterner, but they come through clearly in this excellent New York Times article by Michael Powell. His piece deals with the subject through the lens of Brooklyn Tech, an elite New York City high school from which one of my cousins graduated in the 1960s. Brooklyn Tech hasnt yielded to demands that it stop admitting

How it feels to be an Asian student in an elite public school

Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Tech and other schools across the country are under pressure to end entrance exams. Students have complicated feelings about that.

The upsurge of student protests across the U.S. is a reaction to a nationwide “return to normal,” no matter the cost.

By Kendall Tietz Students across the U.S. are planning school walkouts in protest of in-person learning as COVID-19 cases spike amid the rise of the Omicron coronavirus variant. There are 3,494 schools actively disrupted as of Friday, according to Burbio’s K-12 School Opening Tracker, which tracks school closures for 1,200 districts, including the 200 largest […]

Students are demanding a return to remote learning until cases go down and COVID protections increase in schools.