President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.