A few years ago, Jonathan Kozol and I were among a group of people giving presentations at an event in Chicago tied to the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board. He spoke first and gave the kind of eloquent, morally severe speech one would expect, asserting that the nation’s increasingly segregated schools were an insult [...]
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Courting Unfulfilled Promises
I’m an editor, not a blogger. And I often cringe at the lengthy prose of many blog posts, saying to myself, “they sure could use a good editor.” But the recent Supreme Court ruling on race and schools has brought out the blogger in me. First, I do respect our justice system, the Supreme Court, [...]
Segregation is unconstitutional, so desegregation must also be?
Cruel irony dripped from the Supreme Court’s decision today to declare unconstitutional the school assignment plans in Seattle and Louisville. In Brown v. Board the Court ruled that districts could not segregate schools based on race. Today’s ruling says, in effect, districts can not desegregate based on race either. I respectfully disagree with Liz in [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.