“Howard U prof: College scam exposes “deception” that wealthy succeed through hard work alone. “If you don’t buy into the notion that rich people are disproportionately smarter than the average person, then there are a lot of things that you would consider pretty fishy,” says Ivory Toldson, president of Quality Education for Minorities. That people…
“High school valedictorians are the best in their class academically. But a new report finds that the top graduates of Boston’s public high schools are encountering great obstacles to attaining educational and economic milestones. John Yang talks to the Boston Globe’s Malcolm Gay, one of the story’s reporters, about how former stars are struggling and…
“As Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh objects to being held accountable for his behavior in high school, we look at the criminalization of black and brown students that has led to what is known as the school-to-prison pipeline. We speak with a roundtable of community activists engaged in the fight to save schools and push…