"American Diversity" class insufficiently heartwarming for some Wisconsin parents.

Daily Mail brings news of a local high school where kids were taught that "minorities had historically been oppressed by white people....

"I haven't been a black conservative since 1995..."

Glenn Loury talks about people he's known for 40 years who won't say hello, who won't look him in the eye because he USED TO BE ...

Madison loses $4.9 million in state aid to schools as Madison kids opt to attend schools in other districts.

The state has an open enrollment policy, so you don't have to go to school in the district where you reside. You'd think students fr...

"Students told to disavow 'American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality.'"

Asserts a headline at The College Fix that's getting a lot of attention right now. See Memeorandum and Instapundit . But the text, eve...

"If only [racial] change were as swift and simple as a child’s dance recital."

Here 's a second article about race giving central, front-page attention on the NYT website this morning. (The previous post discusses ...

For at least 6 years, during Elizabeth Warren's tenure at Harvard Law School, Harvard University reported that there was a Native American woman at the law school.

Boston Globe reports on documents Harvard filed with the federal government: The US Department of Labor requires large employers to collect ...

Second-grader — assigned to come to school dressed as a historical figure — chooses MLK Jr. and gets in trouble.

Because he wore blackface.

"I think they would stop calling me white girl if there were white kids... "

"Because my skin is a little lighter and I can’t dance, they call me that. Some of them can’t dance, either.... I could talk the way I ...

The Chronicle of Higher Education fires blogger Naomi Schaefer Riley for mocking university Black Studies programs.

Here 's a Wall Street Journal editorial column condemning the Chronicle (including the disclosure that Riley is married to a member of t...

"Black students, especially boys, face much harsher discipline in public schools than other students..."

"... according to new data from the Department of Education." One in five black boys and more than one in 10 black girls received ...

"Our children aren't there to be subjects of teachers and teachers unions."

"But the decisions that have been made in the Madison Metropolitan School District for a mighty long time have been determined by adult...

Evidence and ideology.

Looking at basically the same problem, the Wall Street Journal gravitates toward reform that breaks the hold of unions, and the NYT finds n...

"National Merit has never been transparent about, for example, the ethnic diversity of the people who receive National Merit scholarships."

Said William Fitzsimmons, the admissions dean at Harvard , quoted in an article that reports that NYU — like at least 8 other schools — has ...

Taking race into account — simply wrong or rather complex?

Louis Molepske, a Democratic member of the Wisconsin Assembly, questions Roger Clegg, president of Center for Equal Opportunity, which has r...

"It irks me when someone says our young black children either go to charter schools or they go to prison... I have 4 children that went to Madison public schools, and all succeeded."

Said one of many speakers at the 3-hour public hearing last about the proposed Madison Preparatory Academy , "semi-private charter scho...

"Not everyone on the UW-Madison campus is a fan of the university's 'holistic' admissions policy."

"That's the gist of a strongly worded email I received over the weekend from UW-Madison physics professor Marshall Onellion," ...

"How do you escape the notion that getting rid of affirmative action is white supremacy?"

2 UW-Madison students challenge Roger Clegg — the president of the Center for Equal Opportunity: Like the clip in the previous post, this wa...

"You need to take an Ethnic Studies Requirement class!"

An audience member yells reeducation advice at Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity, who asserts that public universities should ...

In Madison, Wisconsin: "a school for 60 male and 60 female sixth-graders geared toward low-income minorities."

Well, they did address the sex discrimination problem. Originally, Madison Prep was to be an all-boys charter school — with the Madison sc...

"It pains me to say this, but putting down black might help my admissions chances and putting down Asian might hurt it."

A modest "might." “My mother urges me to put down black to use AA” — African-American — “to get in to the colleges I’m applying to...