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Kevin Daley Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke candidly about her experiences as an undergraduate student Monday, styling herself an ideal beneficiary of affirmative action. Speaking to a student assembly at Michigan State University’s convocation, the justice discussed the challenges of diversity and inclusion, which increasingly define her public profile outside the high court’s official…

Nine years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans’s Recovery School District – created in 2003 to take over the administration of Louisiana’s lowest-performing schools – is undertaking groundbreaking educational reform. This week, it permanently closed down its five board-run public schools: from now on, all of its facilities will be charter schools. Charter schools are publicly…