International Coalition to McDonald’s CEO: Keep Your Word & Ban Ronald McDonald From Schools
Boston – July 29 – Advocacy groups around the world are urging McDonald’s CEO, Don Thompson, to stand by his assertion that Ronald McDonald does not make appearances in schools. At McDonald’s 2014 Annual Shareholder Meeting, Mr. Thompson said, “in schools and our restaurants you [...]
Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League
In the spring of 2008, I did a daylong stint on the Yale admissions committee. We—that is, three admissions staff, a member of the college dean’s office, and me, the faculty representative—were going through submissions from eastern Pennsylvania. The applicants had been assigned [...]
The Colorblind Bind
Race or Class? The Future of Affirmative Action on the College CampusFocusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action. By Richard Rothstein | American Prospect. July 2014 Chief Justice John Roberts says that “the way to stop [...]
What Was Freedom Summer?
Photograph; Freedom Summer activists sing before leaving training sessions at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, for Mississippi in June 1964. | Ted Polumbaum Collection/Newseum Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 85: Why was the summer of 1964 pivotal in the fight for civil [...]
50 Years After Freedom Summer – A New Generation Carries the Torch
Dream Defenders Across Florida Launch Summer Voter Mobilization Project In Lead Up to 2014 Election.Dream Defenders commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement’s 1964 Freedom Summer with a Multi-county Voter Awareness and Education Campaign. Youth in nine major Florida [...]
Debate Intensifies Over Value-Added Research
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Closing Schools, Opening Schools and Changing School Codes: Instability In the New Orleans Recovery School District
During its first few years, the Recovery School District (RSD) simply opened schools in New Orleans, without closing any and without changing any school codes. But, five years ago the RSD began to close schools and change school codes as [...]
Dear White America; Why It Is Always About Race
I’VE LEFT EARTH in search of darker planets, a solar system that revolves too near a black hole. I have left a patch of dirt in my place & many of you won’t know the difference; we are indeed the same color, one of us [...]