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Aug 28 2019

Today's Clips (8/28/19)

Today's Clips (8/28/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
For me, the news that the Mayor’s School Diversity Advisory Group recommends eliminating gifted and talented education in New York City public schools landed like a thud. On the one hand, I thought of my immigrant parents’ multi-year struggle to get me into a G&T program. On the other hand, the memory of being one of very few non-white or non-Asian students in my gifted and talented class is deeply engraved in my thinking today.
IN OTHER NEWS

The company will no longer use a single number to indicate the obstacles that a student might have overcome, like crime and poverty.

The College Board is right to drop plans for an ‘adversity score.’

A high-profile lawsuit against Harvard is forcing students and their families to choose sides.

Ismail Ajjawi, 17, a Palestinian from Lebanon, said he was denied entry after a customs agent took issue with posts written by others.

Schools should try a less congratulatory and more honest approach.

Ernie Andrews looks out to the grounds of Washington's historic Langston Golf Course and shrugs at the fact that fewer young black golfers are coming out to play these days.

Automatic applications could help narrow the U.S. educational achievement gap.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is fighting a lawsuit brought by the Daily Tar Heel. The Herald-Sun, Capitol Broadcasting over release of disciplinary records in student sexual assault cases.
TRADES
Marybeth Gasman, the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor of Higher Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, has carved out a niche for herself as the outspoken white woman on issues of minority access to education.

Being radical used to take a lot of work. Now all one needs to do is succumb, conspicuously, to hopelessness.
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