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The Heritage Foundation sponsored a forum on methods to improve inner city schools and to assess what role American business and African-American business leaders can play in improving Ameri…

The speakers described ways of improving inner city schools. Issues raised in the forum included the participation of the business community in vocational education, and the use of school ch…

This was a Heritage Foundation Event concerning Civil Rights and Education. Assistant Secretary Williams talked about his past two years in the Department of Education. He spoke about the is…

Education Secretary Lamar Alexander spoke with reporters about his proposed policy on race-specific scholarships. This was the formal announcement of the policy, which would restrict federal…

The committee, chaired by Senator Paul Simon (D-Illinois), heard testimony on the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, an agency designed to enforce civil rights legislation in …

The panelists talked about issues relevant to the current debate on the “political correctness” of American college campuses, including censorship, anti-harassment codes, and curriculum refo…

Forty-five minutes before the hearing of the House Government Operations subcommittee, Secretary of the Department of Education Lamar Alexander and Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Micha…

The previous week, the Department of Education announced that federally funded college scholarships based only on race are discriminatory. Assistant Secretary of Education Michael Williams m…