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University of Chicago thinks tutoring young blacks in algebra will bring down Chicago's murder rate.

25 percent of students are truant every year.

Also, test makers are working on a new SAT that will reduce "background disparities."

Louisiana Republicans want to continue sending poor blacks to private schools.

Report says the achievement gap is due to "institutional racism."

Majority black schools are the offenders.

"I don’t believe that American education can be saved by youthful enthusiasm."

"Poor, white students outperformed black students from poor and wealthy families."

More evidence for "mismatch theory."

New minorities means new holidays.

It was part of a slavery reenactment.

38 percent of blacks, 34 percent of Hispanics, and 12 percent of whites receive special education.

Pastor: “I don’t know if it’s a psychopathic gene or what, but it’s totally unacceptable.”

The poem was “My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears."

"KKK Leader" not "Confederate General."

The battle over Texas history.

A quarter of teachers resign at the end of their first year in St. Louis public schools.

Schools are to blame for black criminality.

It's hard to charge "racism" when a school is run by blacks.

Only Hispanics can properly represent Hispanics.

Poor whites are doing worse than poor blacks in British schools.

Mass immigration makes its way to the classroom.

The media won't press Obama on the failure of federal preschool programs.

Statistical disparities mean bias for the ACLU.

A new wrinkle on the "sympathy vote."

There are 201 teachers doing this in Detroit; 507 in Miami; and 674 in Philadelphia.

We doubt it will catch on in states like Maine and Vermont.

The city is adding 600 safety guards along dangerous routes.

The progress people felt after Obama's election has faded.

Compared to 14 percent of Hispanics, 33 percent of Whites, and 43 percent of Asians.

The assailants will probably receive only nine months of probation.

One contending gang is called the "Americans".

Produced by Henry Louis Gates, of "beer summit" fame.

Perhaps it has something to do with the students.

And there is still an "achievement gap."

SPLC brings suit against reality.

Without even mentioning race.

From the bus driver's point of view.

The students attend a "dropout prevention" school.

How to work "racism" and "oppression" into arithmetic lessons.

Someone wore a battle flag to school.

Because more black students will have to go to new schools.

Crimes were treated as school infractions.

Zambian teachers complain they are having sex with people they cannot see.

What really matters?

Administrators had simplified the tests to avoid penalties under No Child Left Behind.

And school superintendent gets a fat salary.

Academics say the gap has "distinctly political foundations."

Rachel Jeantel has put a face on it.

"It's a great opportunity," says Gov. Jerry Brown.

Saving black-run school districts from financial ruin is "colonialism."

Race unspecified, of course.

Cheating is a right in this Chinese town.

Chicago Teachers Union president says whites are the ones paying for the schools--but not enough.

District pays $300,000 for researcher to say white teachers are biased.

Americans now require pre-school as soon as they are born.

And how we teach martial arts.

Many Hispanics aren't "culturally comfortable" sending children to pre-school.

Blacks celebrate the last day of school.

Latisha James is charged with battery.

The goal is to "prevent and address racial discrimination in student discipline."

Police found her "incoherent and barely conscious."

It must have been the oppressively hot weather.

Researchers have found genes that account for 2 percent of the variation in school achievement.

Not even black teachers can use the word "Negro."

There is black flight, too.

Senior detective says police chief "asked that I reduce the number of arrests I affect of all black juveniles."

Teachers union report is called "Still Separate, Still Unequal."

Jared Taylor interviews Frank Borzellieri.

Instead they will "engage" the brats.

Her mother is also, conveniently, the head of discipline in her school district.

Thirty students watched as the victim's skull was fractured.

CA universities spend millions "reaching out" to non-whites.

That's twice as many as five years ago.

How schools teach students to be bad workers.