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On the Monday after the “Miracle in Miami,” Boston’s biggest upset of the enemy since the British evacuated the city, classics master Joe Desmond went to the blackboard and scrawled two words in the Greek alphabet.
April 7, 1985
World & Nation
A Father’s Lawsuit Forces Boston to Rethink Quotas at Exam Schools
Jan. 16, 1997
The public high school where Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Leonard Bernstein all studied was ordered Thursday to dismantle its race-based admissions policy.
Nov. 20, 1998
Michael McLaughlin’s lawsuit to get his daughter admitted to Boston Latin School after she had been rejected in favor of less qualified African Americans and Latinos prompts me to reminisce (“Ancient Wounds,” Jan. 16).
Feb. 2, 1997
It sounds like a cross between a prison and a pawn shop. The windows are nailed shut.
May 8, 1985
The Boston Latin School, founded a year before Harvard University to train the New World’s best and brightest, celebrates its 350th birthday today as America’s oldest public school.
April 23, 1985
Company Town Blog
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April 23, 2010
Boston’s school board can consider race when deciding which students to admit to the city’s three most competitive public schools, a federal judge ruled in a case brought by a white ninth-grader.
May 29, 1998
Boston dropped racial quotas at its three finest public schools Friday, dismantling the 2-decade-old policy under pressure from a white girl who claimed reverse discrimination.
Nov. 16, 1996
California
Education: Courses will be demanding, and uniforms required.
Feb. 19, 1997