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From: To: [email protected] Subject: The New York Times Magazine: The Legacy of Racism in American Education Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 21:03:13 +0000 View in Browser Add to your address book. pliThe New York Times 2T, he New York Times Friday, September 8, 2017 In 2008, U.W. Clemon — the first black federal judge in the history of Alabama — stepped down from his post, turning in his resignation precisely two hours after the inauguration of the nation's first black president. Last year, nearly half a century since Clemon first worked, as a young lawyer, to secure the constitutional rights of thousands of black children in Jefferson County, he found himself sitting in front of the same white judge as before, arguing in the continuation of the very first school-desegregation case he worked on. "If there is a benefit to having to fight for civil rights over so many decades," writes Nikole Hannah-Jones, "it's that it makes you presciently aware of the way that racism does not so much go away but adapts to the times." In this week's special issue, we track the persistent legacy of racism in American education. Mosi Secret reports on the first black boys to integrate the South's elite boarding schools in the 1960s. Mark Binelli writes about Michigan's gamble on charter schools — and how its children lost. AlMa Tugend reports on the millions of dollars spent each year to expand Advanced Placement classes in majority black and Latino high schools. And Alice Yin shows how, in the more than 60 years since the heady and hopeful days following the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, much has changed, and much has not. Happy reading, Jake Silverstein Editor in Chief EFTA00688284 RA classroom at Gardendale High School in Alabama. A classroom at Gardendale High School in Alabama. Devin Yalkin for The New Yoz k .1 The Resegregation of Jefferson County By NIKOLE II.1'I JONES What one Alabama town's attempt to secede from its school district tells us about the fragile progress of racial integration in America. (Marvin Barnard (left) and Bill Alexander during their freshman year at V.E.S. ,from top: Laura Fuchs with a student; a student taldng a practice test. Front Virginia Episcopal School Glenna Gordon for The New York limes `The Way to Survive It Was Who Benefits From the to Make A's' Expansion of A.P. Classes? 1::. ALIN.% 1«,:NI) They were the first black boys to integrate the Millions of federal and state dollars are spent each South's elite prep schools. They drove themselves year on increasing the number of Advanced to excel in an unfamiliar environment. But at what Placement classes in low-income majority black cost? and Latino high schools. Is this a benefit to the students or a payday for the testing company? The DACA `Fix' That Immigration Activists Fear By upending Obama's executive order, Trump is likely to reopen fault lines in a beleaguered movement. EFTA00688285 Is Sex With a Brain-Damaged Man Assault? AN1E ANTI ION AI' PIA II The magazine's Ethicist columnist on sexual consent among the cognitively disabled and the use of robo texts. ADVERTISEMENT a (,The Academy of Warren in Warren, Mich., and Timbuktu Academy in Detroit. The Academy of Warren in Warren, Mich., and Timbuktu Academy in Detroit. Jonno Rottman for The New York Times Michigan Gambled on Charter Schools. Its Children Lost. . \ I Free-market boosters, including Betsy DeVos, promised that a radical expansion of charter schools would fix the stark inequalities in the state's education system. The results in the classrooms are far more complicated. EFTA00688286 Doin Yalkin for The New York Times Education by the Numbers By ALICE YIN Statistics show just how profound the inequalities in America's education system have become. Illustration by Derek Brahney Americans Are Confronting an Alarming Question: Are Many of Our Fellow Citizens `Nazis?' By SASI IA CI IAPIN For decades, we talked about Nazis mostly in analogies, jokes and caricatures. Now we're debating whether it's a fair word for describing a good number of our neighbors. Still Lives That Won't Hold Still By TEA) COLE Maria Cosindas's dreamlike photographs have a magic all their own. Billy Eichner Wants You to Know He's Mainstream Interview by ANA MARIE COX The actor and comedian on how journalists mess up interviews and the similarities between his "Billy on the Street" character and Donald Trump. ADVERTISEMENT EFTA00688287 GJ GJ FOLLOW NYTimes Tw @nytmag Get more NYTimes.com newsletters » Get unlimited access to NYTimes.com and our NYTimes apps. Subscribe ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYlimes.com's The New York Times Magazine newsletter. Unsubscribe Manage Subscriptions Change Your Email Privacy Policy Contact Advertise Copyright 2017 The New York Times Company 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 rr EFTA00688288