2015年3月21日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Education News


Slain civil rights activist to receive posthumous degree

Posted: 21 Mar 2015 07:13 AM PDT

In this March 26, 1965 file photo, an Alabama state troopers car is parked on the side of the road near Lownsboro, Ala, where Viola Gregg Liuzzo of Detroit, was shot to death while enroute to Montgomery. Wayne State University plans to give an honorary doctor of laws degree to Liuzzo during a ceremony on April 10. It will be the first posthumous honorary degree in the school's history. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell, File)DETROIT (AP) — For 24 years, a stone marker has stood along U.S. 80 in Alabama's Lowndes County, near the spot where Viola Gregg Liuzzo was fatally shot by Klansmen while shuttling demonstrators after the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march.


Readers write: How US schools still fail, beauty of a carbon tax

Posted: 21 Mar 2015 05:00 AM PDT

Regarding the March 9 cover story, "Selma's long march": The article states, "Education is critical to economic development...." There are no truer words, but I recently checked the rankings of one of Boston's public schools, The English High School. Fifty years since Selma and the passage of civil rights laws, and 40 years after the judicially mandated and federally enforced desegregation of Boston's public schools, The English High School is 97 percent minority. Who will save these kids, in Boston or Selma, or in so many other cities, if no one is even talking about it? The Feb. 17 online article "BP's two-word fix for global climate change" (CSMonitor.com) underscores how wide and deep (and nonpartisan) the support is for carbon pricing via cap-and-trade or carbon tax.

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