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The Importance of Writing
To call attention to the vital importance of writing, the College Board Review has a special issue devoted to the subject. In it, a range of contemporary writers discuss what drove them to put their ideas to paper, while former Senator Bob Kerrey describes aims of the National Commission on Writing for America's Families, Schools and Colleges. We also look at writing in all levels of education.
You can download selected articles from this issue.
The Art and Craft of Writing
The College Board Review, Issue 202, Spring 2004
Choosing Yourself (.pdf/308k)
Veronica Chambers, author of Mama's Girl and When Did You Stop Loving Me
A Teenager Learns to Explain His Life (.pdf/275k)
Keith Hefner, executive director of Youth Communication
The Stack on the Stairway (.pdf/289k)
Ben Marcus, associate professor of writing, Columbia University
Brown at 50
This month it is especially appropriate to consider not only the history of African Americans but the educational history of all minorities in the United States. A turning point in American education and in civil rights came 50 years ago when the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education. In that unanimous decision, the court decided that the doctrine of "separate but equal" schooling of our children had "no place" in public education. The College Board Forum 2003 reaffirmed the College Board's commitment to providing all students with a high-quality education. The regional forums held throughout February, Black History Month, also celebrate the Brown decision.
In recognition of the continuing importance of this decision, and a rededication to the mission of the College Board to connect all students to college success and opportunity, the College Board Review published an issue commemorating Brown v. Board of Education. We invite you to download it and consider where we stand 50 years later.
As College Board President Gaston Caperton stated in the introduction to the issue, "After you look at this issue, I hope you will share some of the inspiration I felt, as well as impatience to see continued injustice redressed in our educational system."
Brown versus Board of Education
The College Board Review, Issue 200, Fall 2003:
- Issue Cover (.pdf/372KB)
- Introduction (.pdf/274KB)
- Brown v. Board of Education at Fifty; A Personal Perspective (.pdf/681KB)
- Thurgood Marshall; The Man and His Enduring but Endangered Legacy (.pdf/1.2MB)
- "We Always Tell Our Children They Are Americans;" Méndez v. Westminster and the California Road to Brown v. Board of Education (.pdf/928KB)
- Rededication Not Celebration; Brown at Fifty (.pdf/400KB)
- "Today I Wonder How We Ever Pulled It Off;" How a Band of High School Students Influenced Desegregation (.pdf/832KB)
- The Life and Slow Death of Jim Crow (.pdf/604KB)
- Book Review: Reporting Civil Rights: Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963 (.pdf/269KB)
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