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Education Policy in the News: Minnesota Courts to Hear Lawsuit on School Segregation

February 26, 2016

The state of Minnesota, its governor, education commissioner and other ranking public officials are at the center of a class action lawsuit filed last November claiming that the...

Education Policy in the News: Florida Considers Change to School Districts

February 23, 2016

Draft legislation introduced in the Florida State Legislature late last year would amend the state constitution to end the requirement that all counties have independent school...

New Acting Secretary of Education, John B. King, Announces Plan to Promote Racial and Economic Integration in U.S. Public Schools

February 18, 2016

In an important development for federal U.S. education policy, newly appointed Acting Secretary of Education, John B. King, recently announced the U.S. Department of Education...

The Institute for Social Progress Joins the National Coalition on School Diversity

February 10, 2016

Wayne County Community College District’s Institute for Social Progress (ISP) is pleased to announce it has been accepted as a full member of the National Coalition on...

Institute for Social Progress Signs Amicus Brief for Supreme Court Hearing on the Fair Housing Act

February 8, 2016

The Institute for Social Progress, in coordination with the prestigious Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society (U.C. Berkeley), was invited as an amicus signatory to...

WCCCD Chancellor and ISP Founder Dr. Curtis L. Ivery Receives Trumpet Award for Education

February 4, 2016

The Atlanta-based Trumpet Foundation awarded Wayne County Community College District Chancellor and Institute for Social Progress Founder Dr. Curtis L. Ivery its prestigious...

Nationally Renowned Academic, Author And Radio Host Dr. Michael Eric Dyson to Speak at WCCCD’s Global Conversations Series

October 16, 2014

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson , nationally renowned American intellectual, author and radio host will speak at the Wayne County Community College District Downtown Campus at 10 a.m....

World Renowned Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson to Keynote at Wayne County Community College District

September 4, 2014

World-renowned astrophysicist, Cosmos host, author and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson will keynote the Wayne County Community College District Chancellor’s Banquet 6...

University of Texas’ Affirmative Action Safe After Fifth Circuit Affirms Poor Ruling

July 31, 2014

As of Tuesday, July 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the University of Texas at Austin could continue using affirmative action in its admission...

New ‘State of the Science: Implicit Bias Review’ Released By Kirwan Institute

May 20, 2014

Recent research from the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University indicates that employers exhibit an unconscious bias that can compel...

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