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In the News The Civil Rights Project has garnered over 1,000 placements in print and broadcast media during the last year. Recent placements have included broadcast programs such as CBS, NPR, BBC, CNN, and C-Span. In this section we will be posting a sample of
these placements, however, if you would
like to receive specific information or request a hard copy of the
complete Media Tracking Report,
please contact our office at crp@harvard.edu
or 617-496-6367.
Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Michigan Case Topic: Affirmative Action
By Thanassis Cambanis. The Boston Globe. June 3, 2003 A US District Court judge yesterday upheld Lynn's school desegregation plan, ruling it does not violate the Constitution - the first federal case in the country to deal with voluntary, rather than court-ordered, race-conscious school assignment plans. Topic: Diversity in K-12 Education The Path From PrisonBy Editors. The Boston Globe. May 26, 2003 Dominic Hall journeyed from being a South Boston High School student to a South Bay House of Correction inmate. It's an all too familiar path for minotiry students who experience academic and behaviorial problems and a story that has up to now been told more with anecdotes than with facts. That should begin to change as a result of a recent Harvard University conference that brought together 250 scholars, school officials, juvenile justice experts, and advocates... Topic: School Discipline and Zero Tolerance The Ongoing Civil Rights Movement: An Interview with Gary OrfieldThe Politic. May 9, 2003 The American educational system is all we have. We do not have any kind of social support system in the U.S., and we have incredible income inequalities, so our solution, our way of trying to provide some fairness in the system, is giving people educational opportunity. Registration required. Topic: Poverty and Educational Equity
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