Desegregation: The Calendar ...more

November 12, 2007

After 35 years in prison, the man who shot and paralyzed Alabama Gov. George Wallace during his racially charged 1972 presidential campaign is scheduled to be released today into a society more diverse and more restrictive on guns. ...more

November 9, 2007

Florida is joining 18 other public college systems nationwide in a plan aimed at graduating more low-income and minority students from its public universities. ...more

November 1, 2007

Few problems in public education are as vexing as the achievement gap between white and minority students, so it's worth celebrating when two local schools show the gap can be erased. ...more

October 22, 2007

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has a 15-cent price tag stuck to his Yale law degree, blaming the school's affirmative action policies in the 1970s for his difficulty finding a job after he graduated. ...more

October 22, 2007

Strong performances on standardized tests earned Miles Elementary and Egypt Lake Elementary schools state recognition this week. ...more

October 6, 2007

More than three times as many black people live in prison cells as in college dorms, the government said in a report released last week. ...more

September 30, 2007

Obvious Inequities I read Wayne Parlow's Sept. 24 letter to the editor regarding the 'Jena 6,' the African-American students who assaulted some white high school students who had hung nooses from a tree that a black student wanted to sit under. ...more

September 29, 2007

Student Denzel Washington carefully sorted the colorful beads with classmate Rashone Mills. ...more

September 29, 2007

As she looked at the Emancipation Proclamation, Catherine Jewell-Gill recalled her days of picking cotton in Arkansas as a child and later becoming a teacher and principal. ...more

September 24, 2007