by admin | May 6, 2007 | Education |
I was pulling citations about performative aspects of racial identity when I ran across this article. Here’s the abstract: Although affirmative action programs for minority students form just one of several criteria for preferential admissions to American...
by admin | Apr 28, 2007 | Education |
I picked up this story before getting to work this morning. Given the slowly awakening giant that is China, every now and again we get a story comparing Chinese ability in one field or another to European ability in some field or another. Although I’m glad that...
by admin | Apr 9, 2007 | Education |
The first way is here. The second way? In an effort to ensure racial diversity, the school system here in northern Westchester County is set up in an unusual way, its six school buildings divided not by neighborhood but by grade level. So all of the second and third...
by admin | Mar 24, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Education
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently gave DC 122 million for their high schools. (as an aside, i’ve been an Apple guy for the last few years because Windows sucks so bad…but as evil as Windows is pitched to be, it’s hard to argue with Bill...
by admin | Nov 17, 2006 | Education, NPR, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
My most recent commentary on NPR deals with the fallout from the defeat of Proposal 2 in Michigan, which would ban most forms of Affirmative Action in college admissions, hiring, and in awarding contracts. I think the effect on black enrollment at Michigan will be...
by admin | Jul 15, 2006 | Education |
I got a chance to read Brothers Gonna Work it Out by Charise Cheney over the past week while chilling in the northern tip of Michigan’s lower peninsula. It’s about that period between say 1987 and 1992 or so when hip-hop’s political potential was at...
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