Students, schools fear end of racial diversity
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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky  - Seventeen-year-old Quantae Williams doesn't understand why the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his school district's racial diversity program.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected integration plans in two major public school districts but left the door open for using race to assign students in limited circumstances.
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At an unusual elementary school outside Atlanta, more than half the 380 students are refugees from some 40 countries, forming an eclectic community.
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Things are looking up for six black teens charged with trying to kill a white classmate last year after a Louisiana court vacated the conviction of one of the men. But national civil-rights advocates say something remains very amiss in the small town.
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After white parents complained about school crowding, authorities drew up a rezoning plan. The results: almost all the students required to move were black.
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Education and business leaders urged an overhaul of the U.S. school system, including ending high school at the 10th grade for many students. Current teaching is failing to prepare young Americans for the global economy, members of a bipartisan panel said Thursday.
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A difference of opinion about the genetic basis of race has emerged between scientists at the National Human Genome Center at Howard University and some other geneticists.
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A bitterly divided Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that race cannot be used to decide where students go to school, one of the most important civil rights rulings in years that could affect millions of students nationwide.
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The Supreme Court is expected to issue rulings Thursday, including one about the use of race to assign students to public schools.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to limit the use of race in assigning students to public schools is drawing Massachusetts into a legal dispute over school desegregation in one of its cities.
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Public schools in the United States are  becoming more racially segregated and the trend is likely to  accelerate because of a Supreme Court decision in June,  according to report published on Wednesday.
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Fifty years after federal troops escorted Terrence Roberts and eight fellow black students into an all-white high school, he says the struggles over race and segregation still are unresolved.
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Some schools would be able to select pupils by race under plans being considered by the Conservative Party.
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What to do now? School officials around the country are asking that question following a Supreme Court decision rejecting racial integration plans in Seattle and Louisville, Ky.
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The nation's schools, which have become increasingly segregated in recent decades, are likely to become even more racially divided as a result of this week's Supreme Court decision curtailing the use of race in school integration plans, attorneys and educational experts said yesterday.
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School officials in Seattle, Washington, said Thursday they know they cannot use "race-specific" rules to increase diversity in their schools but believe they can accomplish similar goals with "race-conscious measures."
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Although the number of schools teaching Latin is rising, a leading academic fears the subject may disappear.