Separate but Equal

The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team

Michele Somerville | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Uft, Dennis Walcott, Nyc, Charter Schools, United Negro College Fund, Naacp, Chancellor of Schools, Department of Education, Educational Reform, Cathie Black, Separate but Equal, Education News
Michele Somerville

The way to make genuine change in a system that is failing hundreds of thousands of children is to revitalize the weakest schools.

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Three Lessons From Brown v. Board Of Education

Eva Paterson | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: 14th Amendment, Intent Doctrine, Brown v. Board of Education, Eva Paterson, Plessy v. Ferguson, Washington v. Davis, Separate but Equal, Equal Justice Society, Civil Rights, Segregation, Education Equity, Education News
Eva Paterson

As we mark the 57th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, we want to highlight three lessons we have learned from this monumental and hard-fought victory.

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When 'Failing' Schools Close and Whiter, Brighter Schools Open

Michele Somerville | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Upper West Success Academy, Cathie Black, Nyc DOE, School Reform, Eva Moskowitz, Millennium Brooklyn, Separate but Equal, Failing Schools, Schools Chancellor, NYC Department of Education, Education News
Michele Somerville

The matter of school closings is complex and polarizing. Evidence suggests the only solution to the problem of "failing" (DOE speak for "black and Latino") schools is to open new, small schools.

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How Separate Might Yet Be Made Equal at Millennium High School in Brooklyn

Michele Somerville | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Jay Schools, Segregated Schools Education, Nyc DOE, Doe, Segregated-Schools, Cathleen Black, Separate but Equal, Brooklyn, Apartheid High, Millennium High School, Education News
Michele Somerville

The co-location of Millennium Brooklyn in the John Jay building is insult heaped onto years of cumulative injury. Prejudice is never more pernicious than when it imperils the education of children.

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Separate but Equal: Gen. Conway's Housing Project and the Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell

Ian Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Equality, Housing, Homosexual, Sexual Orientation, Obama, Health Insurance, Marine Corps, Legislation, Civil Rights, Homosexual Rights, James Conway, Defense of Marriage Act, State Department, Marriage Equality, Jerrold Nadler, Dod, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gays in the Military, Marines, Gay Rights, Dadt, Military, Segregation, Department of Defense, Separate but Equal, Doma, Inequality, Gay Marriage, Health Benefits, Politics News
Ian Moss

General James Conway's comments last week are illustrative of a push to create a second-class status for gay troops once DADT is repealed.

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The Last Legitimate Bastion of "Separate but Equal"

Andrei Markovits | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Sports, Gender Equality, Women's Issues, Princeton University Press, Title IX, Eri Yashoda, Sexual Discrimination, Separate but Equal, Gaming the World, Sports News
Andrei Markovits

Title IX's empowering legacy is nothing short of transformative, indeed revolutionary. And yet, its empowering legacy merely aspired to a situation of "separate but equal" in the culturally crucial world of sports.

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Do We Want to Be Right, or Have Rights?

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: England, France, California Gay Marriage, Washington State, Prop 8, Maine, President Obama, California Same Sex Marriage, Separate-but-Equal, Civil Unions, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Mark Olmsted

What makes civil unions at present unequal is not their separateness but the host of federal benefits conferred by marriage that even the best state domestic partnerships can't accord.

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Obama's Marriage Position Sounds Eerily Familiar

Lane Hudson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jake Tapper, Separate but Equal, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama, Marriage Equality, Politics News
Lane Hudson

Same rights, different name. Same rights, different vehicle. Same rights, delivered in a different way. Same rights, but....

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Premature Emancipation? A Pragmatist's View of the Gay Marriage Struggle

Gary Cohan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gary Cohan

Civil rights are not won in the war zone of national elections or State referenda but, rather, in a series of small but important evolutionary steps.

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