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Letters

Students with disabilities face inequities in access to bilingual classes

English learners with disabilities face startling inequities in educational outcomes that have widened significantly due to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19.

Ideas

Caps and gowns but no career prospects for grads without connections

Too many colleges make only perfunctory efforts to help students build professional networks.

Letters

Can MCAS be improved? Curbed? Learned from? All of the above?

If 20 years haven’t brought us to where we want to be, then we need to think about changing things.

OpEds

Speaking up on campus doesn’t mean shouting down others

The fear of speaking up is driving discourse down. What speech will be left to save if no one is talking?

OpEds

College financial aid system benefits white students

Families with equal incomes and equal counted assets, like stocks and bonds, would be eligible for the same amount of financial aid even if they had large gaps in uncounted assets, like home equity and retirement savings. But it is well-known that assets are unevenly distributed by race.

OpEds

Clarence Thomas was a beneficiary of race-based admissions at my school

He will probably be among the Supreme Court’s majority in the next few weeks when it is expected to strike down the use of affirmative action in college admissions.

OpEds

If affirmative action in college admissions ends, here’s who will fill those spots

States with existing bans make that outcome clear.

OpEds

Affirmative action hurts Asian American kids like me

Asian American students are forced to achieve higher grades and test scores in order to overcome negative racial stereotypes.