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Scholars want to know whether the practice helps young kids of color succeed academically.

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  1. Higher Education
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    A University That Prioritizes the Students Who Are Often Ignored

    With the national college-graduation rate for black students half that of whites, this school is changing the rules of the game—and beating the odds.

  2. Criminal Justice
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    Using a Green Light to Bring Crime to a Stop

    A new public-safety experiment in Detroit employs high-definition surveillance cameras to deter criminals, but raises questions in the process.

  4. Communities
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    Suburbs: the New Chinatowns

    As today’s Chinese immigrants make their homes outside cities, what will become of the tight-knit urban communities that previous generations built?

  5. Higher Education
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    The Power of Friendship in Education

    How first-generation students are helping each other through college

  6. Criminal Justice
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    Are Prosecutors the Key to Justice Reform?

    Given their autonomy—only if they want to be.

  7. Communities
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    Why a Mississippi City Is Just Now Being Forced to Desegregate Its Schools

    A federal judge says Cleveland, Mississippi, must finally comply with a historic ruling the U.S. Supreme Court made more than 60 years ago.

  8. Communities
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    The Tricky Pursuit of Diversity at the U.S. Air Force Academy

    The school faces the complicated task of increasing the number of minority students while preserving order and tradition.

  9. Higher Education
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    Bringing College to Students Who Can’t Leave Home

    More people are earning degrees from far-away schools through regional campuses.

  11. Criminal Justice
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    The Charges Against Two California Deputies

    Two deputies have been charged with multiple felonies in connection with beating a suspected car thief in San Francisco.

  12. Higher Education
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    A More Inclusive Harvard

    The university’s new sanctions against single-gender social groups are deeply flawed—but promising in their intentions.

  13. Criminal Justice
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    The Failed Promise of Legal Pot

    New laws on marijuana were supposed to boost tax revenues and free up cops to go after “real” criminals. But underground sales—and arrests—are still thriving.

  14. Higher Education
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    Navigating Campus Together

    First-generation faculty can steer first-generation college students toward success.

  15. Communities
    Alexia Fernández Campbell

    Being Successful in One of America's Poorest Cities

    John Weidenhammer has built a multi-million-dollar company in Reading, Pennsylvania, where 40 percent of the population lives in poverty.

  16. Criminal Justice
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    When a Classmate Is a Former Inmate

    Students with criminal records are compelling colleges to rethink what it means to provide opportunity to qualified students.

  17. Early Childhood
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    Bringing Brain Science to Early Childhood

    Policies are lagging behind child-development research and hurting vulnerable families in the process.

  18. Criminal Justice
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    Raise the Minimum Wage, Reduce Crime?

    A new White House report links higher hourly incomes to lower rates of law-breaking.

  19. Higher Education
    Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

    How Common Is a Gap Year?

    Malia Obama will attend Harvard, but she’s waiting until her dad’s out of office.

  20. Criminal Justice
    Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

    Obama’s Proposal to 'Ban the Box' for Government Jobs

    The rule would prohibit federal agencies from asking whether applicants for public employment have a criminal record until the final phase in the hiring process.

  21. Criminal Justice
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    'How Dumb is Dumb?': The Resignation of a Top L.A. County Sheriff's Official

    The Los Angeles Times published crude comments emailed or forwarded by Tom Angel, the department’s chief of staff, in his previous position.

  22. Communities
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    The Business of the DNC Convention

    Minority and female-owned businesses in Philadelphia are cashing in on the multimillion-dollar political convention this summer.