Presents an interview with U.S. Secretary of Education, Roderick R. Paige, discussing wide-ranging issues related to the Bush administration's education pledge to "Leave No Child Behind." He discusses higher education's place in this vision and the administration's efforts to address class and ethnic disparities in the educational…

On July 1, Christopher Edley Jr. became the dean of the University of California-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. The first African American to hold the deanship of California's premier public law school, Edley brings to the job an array of accomplishments and experiences few American law school deans can match. This article describes his…

Many major corporations and national organizations have been pointing to the need for improved K-12 and collegiate opportunities for minorities since the early 1970s. They have argued that such an infrastructure would be necessary to provide Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians and others with the background to enter the science and engineering…