NYU professor Kenji Yoshino and Debo Adegbile of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund join the Melissa Harris-Perry panel to talk about how the Supreme Court is slated to hear arguments this week for Fisher vs. ...
Stuyvesant, long considered the city’s most elite public high school, offered spaces to 967 students this year. 19 of those students were black. That’s more than double the number of black students admitted the year ...
My daughter Gabriela was yelling again. “All that stupid test shows is how good someone is at taking a test,” she said. This was after I asked her to spend more time on the Kaplan ...
An I-Team investigation uncovers the ethnic discrepancies at New York’s best public schools, and why groups are pushing for a change to the admission exam at schools like Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech. Melissa ...
It seemed like a good strategy: To boost the tiny number of black and Hispanic students at the city’s most elite high schools, the city this year expanded access to programs meant to prepare eighth-graders for the ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund today filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights about New York City’s specialized high schools’ admissions process. The complaint alleges that reliance on an unproven test ...
A coalition of educational and civil rights groups filed a federal complaint on Thursday saying that black and Hispanic students were disproportionately excluded from New York City’s most selective high schools because of a single-test ...
