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Don't look now, but there's a big fight breaking out over a move to desegregate the schools in suburban Howard County, MD, one of the wealthiest counties in the country, just at the moment that busing has flared up as an issue in the presidential race.

baltimoresun.com/education/bs-m…
"Signs like 'No Forced Busing' and 'Don’t Dismantle Communities' are appearing in protests in front of River Hill High, where nearly everyone is affluent and very few are black or Hispanic."

Note: this is in the county where James Rouse created the integrated idyll of Columbia.
"The anti-redistricting group 'Families for Education Improvement' has recommendations.

'A reference to a long bus ride is acceptable, any reference to forced busing is not. "I love my school" is acceptable while "I don’t want to go to (fill in the blank) school" is not.'"
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This week, the Baltimore Sun is losing three pivotal journalists. Two are leaving to do PR at Johns Hopkins, the most powerful institution in town: @DougDonovan, whose reporting led to resignation of two mayors, & editorial page editor @andrewagreen, who will now lead Hopkins PR.
@DougDonovan @andrewagreen These are big gains for Johns Hopkins, but big losses for The Sun, and thus big losses for Baltimore, which as recent years have shown has an even greater need than other cities for a vigorous press.

I don't think we've yet fully grasped the cost of local journalism's decline.
@DougDonovan @andrewagreen On the upside, the Sun is hiring to fill these slots. Apply! It's one of the wildest and most eventful cities to cover in America, where your purpose as a journalist is never in doubt.
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Some pretty eye-opening numbers in this piece on the plummeting share of white workers without college degrees in the workforce, as a result of demographic change and economic forces, over the past decade. Highly relevant to our current political debates. democracyjournal.org/magazine/53/ra…
"The number of employed white high school graduates plummeted by 4,854,694 from January 2008 to August 2018, a 16.9% decline despite nine years of economic expansion—while the number of employed non-white high school graduates increased 3,343,341, or 27.2% over the same period."
"The economy shed nearly 7. 7 million jobs between January 2008 & January 2010 but then restored those jobs from January 2010 to April 2014. The changes in the makeup of employment occurred through the destruction of 7.7 million jobs followed by creation of 16.5 million jobs..."
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This revealing look behind the curtain of college admissions offices and why they continue to favor underwhelming rich students over promising low-income ones, despite all claims to the contrary, is so well done and so maddening.
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“Few enrollment-management people will admit this publicly, but we’re all sort of in the same boat. Admissions for us is not a matter of turning down students we’d like to admit. It’s a matter of admitting students we’d like to turn down.”
"Boeckenstedt’s chart shows an almost perfect correlation between institutional selectivity and students’ average family income, a steady, unwavering diagonal line slicing through the graph. With only a few exceptions, every American college follows the same pattern."
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