Advice on affirmative action - The growing reach of K12 - Duncan to HBCU’s: ‘I apologize’ - Michigan back on track for Common Core?
DRIVING THE DAY: ADVICE ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: The Supreme Court hears arguments Oct. 15 for its next affirmative action case, Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. But the Education Department is still dealing with the implications of the court’s decision to send Fisher v. Texas back to a lower court in June. The department will issue clarifications this morning on how colleges can and can’t consider race in admitting students. The Supreme Court neither endorsed nor barred the consideration of race in admissions. But it did say that lower courts, when considering such cases, should apply strict scrutiny and not give colleges justifying their programs the benefit of the doubt.
--Full speed ahead: The “questions and answers” are being released at the same time as top Education Department and Department of Justice officials meet for a panel discussion with the presidents of Oberlin College and Syracuse University on “Creating and Supporting Diversity in Higher Education.” Both presidents — Oberlin’s Marvin Krislov and Syracuse’s Nancy Cantor — were key players in defending the challenge to the University of Michigan’s affirmative action program that led to the Supreme Court upholding race-conscious admissions in 2003. (Cantor was Michigan’s provost and Krislov its general counsel.) Don’t expect anything less than a full-throated defense of race in admissions from those panel members as the Supreme Court is set to consider another challenge to the Michigan ban.
PRO EDUCATION DEEP DIVE: THE GROWING REACH OF K12: The online provider is best known for its virtual charter schools, but it’s expanding far and wide, into Head Start curricula, classes for Chinese students aspiring to attend American colleges and new types of schools for at-risk students. And it's using some of the money it generates from public online schools to foot the bill for its expansion. The next frontier? Online courses taken piecemeal, part of the “
--Full speed ahead: The “questions and answers” are being released at the same time as top Education Department and Department of Justice officials meet for a panel discussion with the presidents of Oberlin College and Syracuse University on “Creating and Supporting Diversity in Higher Education.” Both presidents — Oberlin’s Marvin Krislov and Syracuse’s Nancy Cantor — were key players in defending the challenge to the University of Michigan’s affirmative action program that led to the Supreme Court upholding race-conscious admissions in 2003. (Cantor was Michigan’s provost and Krislov its general counsel.) Don’t expect anything less than a full-throated defense of race in admissions from those panel members as the Supreme Court is set to consider another challenge to the Michigan ban.
PRO EDUCATION DEEP DIVE: THE GROWING REACH OF K12: The online provider is best known for its virtual charter schools, but it’s expanding far and wide, into Head Start curricula, classes for Chinese students aspiring to attend American colleges and new types of schools for at-risk students. And it's using some of the money it generates from public online schools to foot the bill for its expansion. The next frontier? Online courses taken piecemeal, part of the “