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Harvard’s Admissions Is Challenged for Favoring Children of Alumni

By: Stephanie Saul
After the Supreme Court banned race-conscious affirmative action, activists filed a complaint, saying legacy admissions helped students who are overwhelmingly rich and white.

Harvard students and supporters marched through Harvard Square during a rally on Saturday to oppose the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmation action.

Affirmative Action Shaped Their Lives. Now, They Reckon With Its Legacy.

By: Amy Harmon
Black and Hispanic college graduates, whose lives were directly shaped by race-conscious college admissions, have complicated thoughts about the expected Supreme Court decision.

Supreme Court Could Consider Virginia High School’s Admissions

By: Adam Liptak
The justices will soon rule on race-conscious admissions plans at Harvard and U.N.C. A new appeals court case asks whether schools can use race-neutral tools to achieve racial diversity.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., instituted an admissions process that reserved spots for the top students at every public middle school in the area.

The Common App Will Now Hide a Student's Race and Ethnicity

By: Anemona Hartocollis
If requested, the Common App will conceal basic information on race and ethnicity — a move that could help schools if the Supreme Court ends affirmative action.

Universities are preparing for the possible end of race-conscious affirmative action.

Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural Poem, “The Hill We Climb,” Restricted by Florida School

By: Amanda Holpuch
A grade school in Miami-Dade County said “The Hill We Climb,” which Ms. Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration in 2021, was “better suited” for older students after a parent complained about it.

Amanda Gorman reciting a poem during the inauguration.

Elite Virginia High School’s Admissions Policy Does Not Discriminate, Court Rules

By: Stephanie Saul
Parents had objected to Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia changing its admissions policies, including getting rid of an exam. The case appears headed for the Supreme Court.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va.

Asked to Delete References to Racism From Her Book, an Author Refused

By: Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris
The case, involving Scholastic, led to an outcry among authors and became an example of how the culture wars behind a surge in book banning in schools has reached publishers.

Maggie Tokuda-Hall declined Scholastic’s offer to license her book, “Love in the Library,” on the condition that she edit her author’s note to remove a description of past and present instances of racism.

DeSantis May Have Been Right

By: John McWhorter
The College Board amended its original plan for an A.P. African American studies course. It was probably for the best.

The College Board’s Rocky Path, Through Florida, to the A.P. Black Studies Course

By: Anemona Hartocollis · Dana Goldstein and Stephanie Saul
The nonprofit met with Governor DeSantis’s state officials, who asked whether the course was “trying to advance Black Panther thinking.”

There had long been talk about the need for an Advanced Placement course focused on the Black experience. Now in a pilot program for African American studies, Rachel Williams-Giordano instructed the students Agustina Leon Perdomo, 16, center, and Riley Ferrell, 16, at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Mass.

Florida Gives Reasons for Rejecting A.P. African American Studies Class

By: Eliza Fawcett and Anemona Hartocollis
The state’s Department of Education cites examples of what it calls “the woke indoctrination” of students.

Florida’s education commissioner, Manny Diaz Jr. said parts of the course were “masquerading as education.”

Florida Rejects AP African American Studies Class

By: Patricia Mazzei and Anemona Hartocollis
The state’s Department of Education said in a letter that the course content was “inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed legislation last year that restricted how racism and other aspects of history can be taught in schools and workplaces. A federal judge blocked part of the law, but it still applies to public schools.
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