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June 07, 2006
U.S. Supreme Court To Rule on Race in K-12 Education
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear appeals on cases from Washington and Kentucky related to the legality of taking race into account when placing students in public schools. Read the recent CNN article for more information.
Keeping schools integrated seems to be a never ending battle. What happened to the corporate support for the importance of diversity for students in our multicultural/global world, filed as briefs in the Gratz v. Bollinger Supreme Court case in 2001?
We should be paying more attention to the nearly forty years of writings on the subject of public school inequality published by Jonothon Kozol, author, educator, and conscience of our nation. The title alone , of his most recent book is a sobering statement, The Shame of the Nation : The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (LC 212.62 .K691 2005 in Shapiro & Social Work Library at U-M)
Posted by swortman at June 7, 2006 10:59 AM