The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request to hear a lawsuit that could have interrupted districts’ efforts to increase diversity at elite K-12 schools. Following last year’s decision ending race-conscious admissions in higher education, the move suggests the court is satisfied for now with the selection process at magnets, STEM schools and other […]
Since the beginning of his administration, President Joe Biden has asked Congress for $100 million to help schools become more integrated by race and family income. The proposal never received serious consideration from Congressional Republicans. But the Department of Education didn’t give up and won approval from lawmakers to apply a far more modest amount of […]
When the Supreme Court delivered its landmark ruling prohibiting the consideration of race in college admissions, Richard Kahlenberg was the rare liberal intellectual who celebrated. A prolific researcher at Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, Kahlenberg didn’t just welcome the end of affirmative action as we knew it — he served as an […]
Last week, I sat down and read the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, the landmark case that overturned many affirmative action policies at the nation’s elite universities. The case has generated significant outrage. The right was outraged that Harvard wants to use (and did use) race as a factor in its admissions […]
Universities can continue to target recruitment efforts at predominantly Black and Hispanic high schools even if race can’t be used as a factor in admissions, the Biden administration said in new guidance released Monday. The parsing is part of a package of materials responding to the June U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning affirmative action in […]