The end of the year brings with it a slew of “top 10/best of/worst of” lists. This week’s issue of Time magazine(with Ben Bernanke on the cover as Person of the Year) provides a number of lists, from books to gadgets, business deals to scandals. On the page of Top 10 Essential Stories, there is [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Segregation just isn’t news any more
Posted in Education, Race/ethnicity, Youth, tagged Education, Gary Orfield, Segregation, UCLA Civil Rights Project on December 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
And the winner is…
Posted in Data, General, tagged Human development index, Soccer, World Cup 2010 on December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Most of the world – outside the U.S. anyway – was fixated over the last week on South Africa to learn the draw for next summer’s soccer World Cup. The 32 teams that qualified for the competition were divided into eight round-robin groups. The top two teams from each group then go into the single-elimination [...]
