Another Legal Assault on Pluralism By Sarah Torian Vol. 20, No. 1, 1998 pp. 16-19, 34 “It is preposterous,” says Harvard educator Gary Orfield of the Wooden case, a Georgia lawsuit filed in 1997. Challenging both the affirmative action programs

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Lessons Learned: A Decade of Education Reform By Sarah Ellen Torian Vol. 21, No. 1, 1999 pp. 4-13 “It’s not a problem to be behind,” George Washington Carver Middle School Principal Robert Markham constantly reminds students, teachers, and parents, “but

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Tracking Hurts Children By Marcia Klenbort Vol. 21, No. 1, 1999 p. 14 What is “tracking”? A high school sophomore who spent most of his schooling in low-level courses, says: “You live in the basement, you die in the basement.

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Promote Educational Success, Not Failure By Gregory Malhoit Vol. 21, No. 1, 1999 p. 18 North Carolina’s State Board of Education seems determined to adopt a “quick fix” education policy that could hold back thousands of students who fail state-administered

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Tracking Hurts Children By Ellen Spears Vol. 21, No. 1, 1999 p. 19 Several Southern state legislatures are considering controversial school voucher proposals, which public education advocates call a thinly veiled ploy to undermine public school funding and secure public

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Title I Reauthorization: Renew Federal Support to Under-Resourced Schools By Dianne Piché Vol. 21, No. 1, 1999 pp. 24-26 When Congress takes up the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) later this year, the stakes will be

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Standards Reform: Focus on Learning for All By M. Hayes Mizell Vol. 21, No. 1, 1999 pp. 27-28 During the past two decades, the South has emerged as the star graduate of the nation’s remediation class. It ended up there

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Title I in Alabama: The Struggle to Meet Basic Needs Citizen’s Commission on Civil Rights Vol. 21, No. 3, 1999 pp. 12-15 The Citizens’ Commission for Civil Rights, a nonpartisan organization founded in 1982 to monitor Federal civil rights policies

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When Public Means Private: School Vouchers By Gale Greenlee Vol. 22, No. 1, 2000, pp. 12-13, 21 As the presidential race 2000 heats up, Democrats and Republicans take their places at opposite ends of the political totem pole to debate

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