Supreme Court offers possible road map for schools to diversify top programs
Taking race into account is verboten, but consideration of neighborhood, socioeconomics and other factors might be all right.
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Taking race into account is verboten, but consideration of neighborhood, socioeconomics and other factors might be all right.
Since the beginning of his administration, President Joe Biden has asked Congress for $100 million to help schools become more integrated by race and family income. The proposal never received serious consideration from Congressional Republicans. But the Department of Education didn’t give up and won approval from lawmakers to apply a far more modest amount of […]
When the Supreme Court delivered its landmark ruling prohibiting the consideration of race in college admissions, Richard Kahlenberg was the rare liberal intellectual who celebrated. A prolific researcher at Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, Kahlenberg didn’t just welcome the end of affirmative action as we knew it — he served as an […]
Six actions could help advance racial equity in US education by closing racial gaps in Pre-K-12 academic achievement.
This year’s offer data shows very little change in racial and economic diversity, particularly for high school, despite seeing the biggest admissions changes.