Tag: school
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On the School Busing Ruling
Today the Roberts Court struck down the ability of school districts to use voluntary race-based busing policies to try to create greater diversity in their school (story here, opinion here [PDF]). That news reminded me of this encounter: It was Martin Luther King Day. I was in downtown Denver that morning. Riding the shuttle to…
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Doubts About the Working World
About a month ago, I graduated from university with a BA in History. To no one’s surprise, I am still unemployed. Six months prior to graduation, I couldn’t wait for it to arrive. Slogging through boring papers, tests, and classes, I looked so forward to being allowed out of the confines of the institution so…
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Meeting William Stafford
This is not about the time that I met the late and great poet William Stafford. Though we shared six years on this earth, I never got that chance. This is rather about the metaphorical meeting that great poetry can convince you you have had. There are poems that you read which resonate. About which…