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...Fifty years later, with an enormous debt to the education activist, scores of Harvard graduates-to-be compete to teach in the poorest schools in America. For the past 40 years, the movement to redress inequalities in education has been Kozol’s movement, and the urgency felt by aspiring public school teachers largely originates in his compassionate indignation...
...That experience radicalized me,” he said. “I didn’t become an activist as a result of reading the right books. I just thought, ‘My god, both these cities are in the same country, but in one school system [in Roxbury], the children are shortchanged in every possible way you can imagine...
...letter to Vorenberg had been authored by a 38-year-old political activist named Muhammad I. Kenyatta, then beginning his third-year at the Law School...
...That period saw the rise of Kenyatta, who entered the Law School in 1980. An unusual student and tireless activist by most accounts, Kenyatta took the helm of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at the end of his second year and injected a social and political bent into the 15-year-old organization...
...likely to depress the price of carbon over the life of the bill. (The lower the real price of carbon, the less effective any cap-and-trade system will be in stimulating investment in low-carbon technology.) "I'm for the cap," says Peter Barnes, an entrepreneur and activist who supports a system that would auction off all permits and return the revenue to taxpayers. "But I'm not for what amounts to a massive wealth transfer from American families to private corporations...