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Almost a year after the president of the Cambridge chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) compared the Cambridge Public Schools’ achievement benchmarks to an “apartheid educational system,” the benchmarks system has been revised and achievement gaps between minority and white students have narrowed, according to a district report released at a school committee meeting last night. The state now uses the Composite Performance Index (CPI), which measures, on a 100-point scale, how close the district has come to attaining proficiency for all students. When...
...that is race-conscious, they equate with racism, so all of the massive inequality is beyond the law, because addressing it becomes racist discrimination against white folks,” said Theodore M. Shaw, the director-counsel and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense & Educational Fund, who filed an amicus brief on behalf of the defendants. “They’re hypocrites and I think we have to call them that...
...Ford's loss doesn't mean that we're back in 1956. But to lose over the ancient fear of miscegenation is ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the G.O.P.'s attempts to woo blacks across the country. This was the year when President Bush addressed the NAACP, Ken Mehlman made very big appeals to African Americans, and Republicans fielded a dazzling array of black candidates. But all of them, with the exception of Michael Steele, lost by large margins. Steele came close to beating his Democratic opponent in the Maryland Senate race, Ben Cardin, but black voters still went...
Ogletree writes: “These tenets became the basis of the Niagara movement, founded by a small group of African-American intellectuals critical of Washington; it in turn spawned the NAACP...
Brooks writes on page 129 of his book: “These tenets would become the foundation of the Niagara Movement, founded by a small group of African American intellectuals critical of Washington; it would in turn spawn the NAACP...