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<title>Now That We've Decided In Favor Of (Color) Blind, Will We Move On To Deaf &amp; Dumb Next Term? (Trees And Things)</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/28/15545/9127</link>
<description>They may end up calling this the 5-4 term of the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS). &#160;On the last two days of this year's session, SCOTUS issued seven 5-4 decisions; six veered rightward and one (&lt;a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/06pdf/06-6407.pdf">involving the execution of a mentally ill killer&lt;/a>) leaned leftward. &#160;One of the rightward leaning decisions raised legal questions most of us thought had been settled over 50 years ago. &#160;It was a challenge to voluntary school desegre</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:25:09 EST</pubDate>
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<title>joshv: Re: Now That We've Decided In Favor Of (Color) Bli</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/28/15545/9127#5</link>
<description>Thinking back to my high school experience, "busing" actually made my school whiter. &#160;We had two high schools, one in the "good" part of town, the other in the "bad". &#160;I lived closer to the "black neighborhood", thus, if attendance was based sole</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:30:13 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Lou: Re: Now That We've Decided In Favor Of (Color) Bli</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/28/15545/9127#4</link>
<description>"What cuts?"&lt;p>&#10;Hush up and finish your ketchup.</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 3 Jul 2007 17:31:11 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Steve Urkel: Re: Now That We've Decided In Favor Of (Color) Bli</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/28/15545/9127#3</link>
<description>What &lt;a href="http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000002/00000270.asp">cuts&lt;/a>?</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:35:46 EST</pubDate>
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<title>skeptic: The Chain of Segregation</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/28/15545/9127#2</link>
<description>If no one is actually excluded from any school on the basis of race, and if people therefore can attend the school that is most conveniently located in the neighborhood where they live, and if no one is excluded from living in any given neighborhood on the</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 3 Jul 2007 08:53:30 EST</pubDate>
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<title>thefadd: Re: Now That We've Decided In Favor Of (Color) Bli</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/6/28/15545/9127#1</link>
<description>Weirdly, I don't think this decision is all that out of step with the reality of the direction of education today. "Desegregation" as it currently exists doesn't actually desegregate and just as importantly hasn't made poor urban schools any better. Perhap</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:40:35 EST</pubDate>
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