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Tag: Fourteenth Amendment
Opinion
Why the Detroit Literacy Case Matters to Higher Education
Chronically low literacy rates; classrooms without certified teachers; buildings with leaking roofs, vermin, and mold; missing and outdated textbooks—these conditions in public schools have raised fundamental questions about the rights of children. They have strong implications for higher education.
November 20, 2019
Opinion
“Color Blind” Is Not What It Seems
Among the concepts the law has distorted is “color blindness.” When Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in 1963, before the Civil Rights Act was enacted, he popularized a phrase that has been invoked by those who have not shared his idealism.
November 5, 2019
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