GUEST OPINION
Why the Supreme Court was right
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Disadvantaged students need affirmative action, but the concept of disadvantage should be holistic, placing more weight on a person’s class and less weight—if any—on this person’s race.
Rochester Beacon (https://rochesterbeacon.com/category/guest-opinion/page/3/)
Disadvantaged students need affirmative action, but the concept of disadvantage should be holistic, placing more weight on a person’s class and less weight—if any—on this person’s race.
Caring about the cost of insulin causes us to acknowledge our own humanity at a time of collective precarity.
New research points to a causal connection between the rise of knowledge-intensive activities and an increase in economic segregation in urban areas.
New research sheds some light on questions like these: Are e-cigarettes better or worse than cigarettes and should we tax or subsidize them?
The governor’s proposal to fund and require high-impact tutoring in schools is a needed investment that would benefit New York’s most vulnerable kids.
New econometric analysis credibly demonstrates that investments in early childhood education diminish adult criminality and that the benefits flow disproportionately to high-poverty areas.
Can congressional lawmakers balance the federal budget without touching popular entitlement programs? Not likely.
Matthew Clark might have been the most controversial bishop the Diocese of Rochester
ever had, but nearly two decades of working with him revealed someone who was unfailingly
ethical and polite—and he never personally disparaged anyone who criticized him.
A measure before the state Legislature would end the reliance on suspensions as the default way to discipline students.
Instead of listening to the public outcry, the Canal Corporation’s final plan calls for removing natural vegetation from the embankment, replacing it with a manicured industrial landscape.