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More Questions Concerning Supreme Court Ruling Against Using Race for Admission

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In my previous articles, I have discussed the plans of two school districts in Kentucky to place students in schools by race, I have talked of the Supreme Court ruling that ruled against the schools, and I have addressed some questions concerning Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling against two Kentucky school districts. In this article I will address even more questions and concerns of the ruling. Does this Supreme Court ruling compare to previous rulings made by the Court? This was the first case to discuss diversity and education since 2003. The 2003 case involved college admissions. During that time Justice … Continue reading →

Questions Concerning Supreme Court Ruling Against Using Race for Admission

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Two school districts in Kentucky, Seattle and Jefferson County, have been under the microscope lately for lawsuits that opposed the use of race in determining a student’s school placement. On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that race should not be used in determining which school a student attends. So why did the Supreme Court rule against the schools? The United States Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 against the use of race in school admission plans. The Court felt that the school districts had taken too extreme measure to achieve racial balance in its schools. According to Chief Justice Roberts, … Continue reading →

Supreme Court Ruling: Use of Race in Admission

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In my last article I discussed the two public school districts in Kentucky that were under a lawsuit for using race to determine a student’s admission into a specific school. Several universities have also used race to determine student admission. The University of Georgia Atlanta revised its admission policy that used race to determine admission. Several white women had used the school or threatened lawsuits for discrimination. The women felt that had they been black or men, they would have been admitted. The student body at the school is mainly female and generously accepts male applicants. The school now does … Continue reading →

The Education Blog in Review Nov. 20-Dec. 5th

We start off with an update from Myra Turner regarding kindergartners receiving letter grades. It seems that research confirms what many parents commented on her original blog–letter grades for five year olds is simply unnecessary. Check here to read the first blog in this set. Next, we tackled a hot button issue in ethnically diverse schools, in Are English Language Only Laws Really Helpful? There are laws in various parts of the country that actually dictate that students are not allowed to speak their native tongue anywhere on school property. One student was even suspended for saying, “No hay problema!” … Continue reading →

Desegregation and the Supreme Court

Today the Supreme Court is hearing what is considered to be their 5th big case since Chief Justice John Roberts took the bench. The question being considered is whether or not the need for diversity can justify school districts using race as a factor in assigning schools for students. Background The goal, for more than 400 school districts out of the nation’s 15,000 public schools, is to make the racial make up of a school roughly the same as a district’s population. Affirmative action advocates say that the laws are critical to keeping our educational system fair to all students. … Continue reading →

Use of Race in School Admission

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All knows America for its freedom of acceptance. It is known to be huge and diverse. It is likely to be the most diverse country in terms of race and ethnics. However, here we are some fifty-two years after the court ruling of Brown v. Board of Education. We are once again bringing school race issues to the courts. In some instances we try so hard to ‘fix’ a problem that we only make it worse. The two school districts at question in Kentucky both had developed plans in order to prevent segregation at its public schools. The school boards … Continue reading →

Reasons I am glad we homeschool: Integration/ Segregation issues.

With the exception of learning about the history of segregation and integration in the United States, I feel there is no reason a child should have to deal with this issue. We live in the year 2006, and race is supposed to be the last thing on our children’s minds. Unfortunately, it is not the last thing on the mind of our nation’s educators. I am glad we homeschool because the segregation/integration issue is therefore nonexistent. While our homeschool is of course segregated by nature of our family being the same race, our homeschooling community is integrated. It not something … Continue reading →