Amanda Bennett, a journalist and author, is a former editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
On June 2, 2003, I was named editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer and became — as Jill Abramson did later at the New York Times — the first female editor in a storied institution’s hundred-year-plus history. In November 2006, I
WASHINGTON — She was born into the segregated Chicago of the 1960s, when public schools actively resisted integration. But in 1975, the city, under pressure to comply with the landmark Supreme Court decision desegregating public schools, opened a racially integrated high school for high achievers that changed the young woman’s life.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/16/us/a-decision-that-helped-shape-a-first-lady.html?hp&_r=0
The New York Times
As racial separation in education steadily grows, California now leads the nation in children going to school with their own kind, a UCLA study released Wednesday contends.
San Jose Mercury News
By all accounts, Dr. Leslie Wong has had a distinguished career in higher education.
After serving as dean of Evergreen State College and provost and interim president at the University of Southern Colorado, Wong was appointed president of Northern Michigan University, a position he held for eight years. In August 2012, Wong became the 13th president
I’m too young to have experienced first-hand the “red-baiting” tactics of the House Un-American Activities Commission and of its offshoot, the Army-McCarthy hearings, but when I learned how a university in South Carolina reacted to the booking of an artistic performance, I responded as attorney Joseph Welch did in 1954 to the cruel, anti-communist hounding by Sen.
Idaho’s same-sex marriage ban became the latest to be declared unconstitutional Tuesday when a federal judge handed another victory to gay and lesbian couples. That extended a unanimous streak of rulings across the country over the last year.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-idaho-gay-marriage-20140513-story.html
Hours before Texas could carry out the nation’s first execution since Oklahoma botched a lethal injection last month, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the execution on grounds that the inmate’s
After some of President Obama’s closest political allies unexpectedly accused him of enforcing immigration laws too aggressively, the president ordered his aides this spring to find ways to ease the pace of deportations.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-obama-deportations-20140514-story.html
Los Angeles Times