School achievement gap endures despite reforms
Despite unprecedented national and state reforms over the past decade, the achievement gap between black and white students remains essentially unchanged in California, while the gap between Latino and white students has closed slightly but still remains alarmingly high.
That's the depressing aspect of the state's latest test results which, with some exceptions, got buried when they
Affluent judges skews the law against the poor, says judge
Confirmation hearings for federal judges don’t examine how a nominee’s wealth may impact their rulings on constitutional questions.
The chief justice of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals thinks they should.
“There’s been much talk about diversity on the bench,” Judge Alex Kozinski wrote in a dissenting opinion [PDF] last month, “but there’s one kind of diversity that doesn’t exist: No truly poor people are appointed as