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School board ignores public opposition to Afrocentric school.

More than half of Charlotte elementary schools are either 90 percent black or 90 percent white.

Segregation did not fall without a fight.

Object is to see whether paying students to study improves classroom skills.

High-school senior says it’s already "too much of an easy ride."

Even a test meant to put down whites offends black student.

Too many gifted students in Seattle Public Schools are white.

Maoism alive and well in Glendale, Arizona.

After 44 years, 253 school districts still under federal court supervision.

The black-white achievement gap continues to baffle America’s best minds

Feds propose reports of graduation rates by race.

And the solution? More diversity "initiatives."

Bar committee refuses to turn over data.

Self-segregation: "the most natural thing people do."

School board member: "Race has nothing to do with it, absolutely zero."

Blacks are 5 percent of students but 22 percent of the suspensions.

Vancouver police: "There’s obviously some sort of underlying problem here."

Too few whites.

Common sense comes to Los Angeles.

"Civil rights” now mean freedom to beat up whites.

A "peace pole" is supposed to ease racial tensions at ethnically-diverse Calif. school.

Principal: Many people don’t want to send their children to a school with a lot of blacks.

Race achievement gap persists in best schools; reasons sought.

Teachers are afraid to correct blacks’ English.

Primary cause: fewer white children to spread around.

The more "diverse" the pool, the lower the score.

Effort to help black male students seen as demeaning.

The drumbeat to cut the gap between white and non-white students is growing louder.

Charter schools are highly segregated.

More whites and Asians pass ESL tests on first try than blacks or Hispanics.

The racial achievement gap remains.

Only 55 percent of black students passed Maryland’s annual reading and math tests.

Moving to suburbs doesn't improve black students' grades.

Staffers forced to pay for and participate in Santeria hocus-pocus.

School official believes AP black history will lead to more blacks in AP calculus and physics.

Happy Juneteenth!

Schools not yet in compliance with Court ruling to get more time.

"Pathway to college" at nonwhite prep school paved with grade fraud.

Black dropout rates are highest.

NYC Department of Education masks race discrimination as income requirement.

ADL "tolerance" program used in 14 cities is intended for pre-schoolers.

Preparing children to read "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Biracial advantage.

Roberts: The way to stop racial discrimination is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

Nationwide, 25% of blacks pass Advanced Placement tests; 58% of whites pass them.

Campaign to remove incompetent black teacher called "lynching."

On campus, assimilation is a "hostile force."

Right down there with Cleveland and Detroit.

School had denied diplomas to students whose families cheered too loudly at graduation.

Swapping refugees.

Responsibility for black failure "must be shared."

HBCU students trash property, mosey along, and don’t show up for classes.

Black think tank’s report on achievement gap blames anti-education culture and family.

Lower courts found that vulgar language is normal for blacks.

Student journalist: Teachers shouldn't allow self-segregation.

Safe for whites.

School skirts law and classifies students by race.

Elite school district under fire for not "aggressively" recruiting blacks and Hispanics.

Even math books should reflect the "diversity" in society.

Asian students, parents show most initiative in taking advantage of "diversity" programs.

Seattle school’s black-led administration "resistant to arts, music and foreign-language study."

Cultural diversity director blames summer break for racial achievement gap.

How to close the achievement gap? Make rules requiring that it be closed.

Improvements whites bring to predominantly black school unwelcome.

Programs for blacks imply inferiority.

Eliminating racial achievement gap not realistic.

Segregation is OK when it’s done for the right reasons.

Reform hasn’t been working, so drastic measures are necessary.

Philadelphia district is first to make black history a required course for graduating.

ASU spokesman: A student’s ethnic background has never been a factor in admission.

Group of black parents push sons to graduate on time in 2012.

Free computers and $10,000 not sufficient incentives for non-whites to stay in school.

Barack Obama not black enough.

Establishment won’t let go of "socially engineered racial proportionality."

Hmong leaders say they are tired of their contributions being overlooked.