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Crossing Racial Boundaries January 17, 2006
Yesterday would have been the 77th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In his last speech, he told the story of his brush with a would-be assassin: You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written. And while sitting there autographing books, a demented black woman came up. The...

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NAACP: "Keep your children in failing schools" June 29, 2004
In Thomas Sowell's most recent column, he writes: People sometimes ask if I have tried to convince black "leaders" to take a different view on racial issues. Of course not. I wouldn't spend my time trying to persuade the mafia to give up crime. Why should I spend time trying to convince race hustlers to give up victimhood? It's their...

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The 10 Percent Solution: 'Diversity' trumps Academic Preparation June 16, 2004
Recently both Joanne Jacobs and Kimberly Swygert have weighed in on the topic of the "talented tenth." Seems in Texas (and California and Florida) the powers-that-be decided to have a race-neutral university admissions policy--designed to nonetheless improve 'Diversity'--by accepting the top 10% of any high school class in the state, regardless of rigor. While some folks say it's a success...

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Reflections on Brown: Black school, White school May 20, 2004
Kimberly Swygert yesterday directed our attention to a very revealing story about two schools, one black, one white. The black school is struggling, and the white school is soaring, and we've all heard it before. This one would seem destined for the files of "separate and unequal" and would make good fodder for the argument that Brown v. Board of...

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Reflections on Brown: More segregation today? May 18, 2004
As with the elimination of slavery, the prohibition of Jim Crow era separate-but-equal laws helped bring America one step closer to living up to her founding principle of equality for all. Unfortunately, in marking the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, many folks are observing that "today's schools are almost as segregated as fifty years ago." In a recent...

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Reflections on Brown: A racial problem? May 17, 2004
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, which eventually helped break down the color barrier in public education where it previously had been enforced by law. Today, many people are wondering about the racial gap that still exists in public education in America. It is a sad fact that in our cities,...

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Black Alliance for Educational Options February 27, 2004
Last night we attended an membership reception hosted by the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) in Philadelphia (at right is Dawn Chavous, chair of the Membership Committee). While we've been a member for about two years, this is the first event we've attended. These folks are passionate about increasing educational options for children--our kind of people! And what is...

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Fighting those who hold blacks back January 08, 2004
Armstrong Williams has an excellent column on the efforts by U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige and D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams to improve the education of our children, especially children of color in our cities. According to the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, "More than 70 percent of the nation's black students now attend predominantly minority public schools." In...

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Urban fatalism, begone! January 08, 2004
We've been teaching in the inner city for the better part of a decade, and we can tell you firsthand the "soft bigotry of low expectations" is alive and well. As we've mentioned before in "Changing what we can change," part of the problem is the overwhelmingly common viewpoint that much of a child's success in public school depends on...

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