Brown v. Board of Education, 70 years on, is both revered and unfulfilled. A Washington Post-Ipsos poll finds 1 in 3 Black Americans say integration has failed to help Black students. New story with Laura Meckler Emily Guskin washingtonpost.com/education/2024…

.Kevin Bacon makes a bunch of teens' dream come true, showing up to prom at the school where Footloose was filmed. “I think it was unexpectedly profound in a weird kind of way,” he tells Omari Daniels washingtonpost.com/history/2024/0…

As pro-Palestinian student protests surged in the past week, universities responded with consequences not imposed en masse for decades: suspensions, expulsions and arrests. There's been nothing like it since the Vietnam War wapo.st/3xZU5Vi w Hannah Natanson

Ahead of the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, a new study finds policy choices explain the rise in segregated schools since 1991 (with tool that lets you look up segregation levels by district: edopportunity.org) washingtonpost.com/education/2024…

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For Jewish college students, this is a moment of intense and sometimes conflicting emotions that have left many pinballing: worry over Israel’s safety, the hostages, fear of rising antisemitism, empathy for Palestinians. Laura Meckler and Michelle Boorstein washingtonpost.com/education/2024…

BREAKING: Marcia L. Fudge, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development, has withdrawn as commencement speaker for the class of 2024, the district announced this afternoon. Story to come. Follow The Shakerite for updates.

Coming attractions: Aaron Sorkin just told to a room full of DC journalists he’s writing a movie about Jan. 6.

As mass shootings continue at their relentless pace, criminal and civil accountability is extending beyond the shooters to parents, gun dealers and now in Va., a school administrator. w/Hannah Natanson justin jouvenal washingtonpost.com/education/2024…

I'm looking forward to this book talk next week at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge, and not just because the conversation will include high school friend Renee Romano, a distinguished historian. Join us! ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-ta…

NEW: The Biden administration is preparing to finalize sweeping rules in coming weeks governing how sex discrimination is addressed in schools, including new protections for transgender students. But officials plan to put off a companion reg on sports washingtonpost.com/education/2024…

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