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With Name Changes, Schools Transform Racial Reckoning Into Real-Life Civics Lessons


With Name Changes, Schools Transform Racial Reckoning Into Real-Life Civics Lessons
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Students are involved in renaming T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va. The storied school was originally named for a former superintendent who was an avowed segregationist.Photo by Addisnog – licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikimedia Commons
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Each day that Lorraine Johnson stepped on campus at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., she struggled to shake the fact that the school’s namesake fought for decades to prevent black and white students from attending school together.
Johnson, a senior at the school, is among the Black students that led the push to change the name of the storied school, featured in the 2000 movie “Remember the Titans,” because of the segregationist views held by Thomas Chambliss Williams, the former school district superintendent for whom the school is named. ....

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Fairfax school board switches to 'holistic review' admissions system for Thomas Jefferson High School


Fairfax school board switches to ‘holistic review’ admissions system for Thomas Jefferson High School
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Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
The Fairfax County Public Schools board voted Thursday to adopt a “holistic review” for admissions to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a revision meant to boost diversity at the top-tier magnet school and that ends months of fraught and fiery debate.
The school board had previously backed a plan to scrap a long-standing admissions test for the school, known as TJ.
Under the new rules, Fairfax will first identify all eighth-graders who meet certain academic criteria: those who achieve an unweighted GPA of at least 3.5 while taking Algebra I or a higher-level math class, in addition to math and science honors courses and either an English or social studies honors course. ....

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