The final death of race-conscious desegregation
Given the news stories after yesterday’s oral argument in the Seattle and Louisville cases, it seems clear that the Supreme Court is going to strike down desegregation plans that are not court-ordered cognizant of race in any formulaic sense Affirmative action in the individualized way that Sandra Day O’Connor accepted in the Michigan law school […]
Death by dictionary
Rule #13.5 for students: Do not cite dictionaries in social-science or humanities courses! Sometimes I’m tempted to strangle the K-12 teachers who encourage this bad habit. How Webster’s defines discrimination has nothing to do with demonstrating understanding of course material. It’s a distraction from what the student needs to do in a paper, it’s poor […]
Margaret Spellings or T’ai Chi?
February’s American Council on Education’s Annual Meeting has an online program schedule for the world to browse. A few clues to the changing political environment in Washington: the theme of the meeting is officially “The Access Imperative” though U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is on the agenda for a plenary session and the plenaries […]
Headachey woes
By Sherman Dorn on December 5, 2006
Oh, lovely: first day I’ve had in several weeks to devote to more in-depth projects (the type that require intense concentration either because of intellectual requirements or sheer mundanity), and I’ve got a headache. Or, rather, the minor headache I took naproxen for about six hours ago is still with me and growing. Do I […]
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