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One school's sad decent Colbert I. King - What a shame it is that Dunbar Senior High School, noted for its academic rigor during the era of segregated schools, is now the duty station of several police officers backed by security cameras overseeing a student body enrolled in mandatory sessions designed to prevent sexual assault and other inappropriate behavior. Shepard play teaches about hate, love Va. high school produces play on anti-gay hate crime ... Unease Grows About Future of Financing for Pell Grants There is growing uncertainty about the future of Pell grants, the nation's most significant financial-aid program for college students. ...

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Undoing College Jason Fertig - For students graduating this December, their real education is about to begin. Forget Sputnik Moments: The Time is Now for School Reform RiShawn Biddle - This was adapted from the speech I gave last night at the State of Black CT Alliance's Building Blocks of Educational Excellence Event. The event is the next step in the group's emergence to address reform of the state's education system, which is home to arguably the nation's worst achievement gaps. The anti-manager: Joel Klein was lots of things Cathie Black isn't More than a month after shocking the city with news of her appointment as the next schools chancellor, Hearst executive Cathleen Black is still trying to calm people down. ... What Makes Academic Freedom Tick: A Reply to John K. Wilson Steve Balch - John K. Wilson has posted a lengthy rebuttal to the article Ashley Thorne and I published on our website December 15th about the decision of Penn State's Faculty Senate to revise its statement on academic freedom, removing provisions that tracked the language of the founding document of the AAUP, the 1915 Declaration of Principles.