Sentences with phrase «landmark education graduate»

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Through showdowns with authorities on and off campus, they advanced the cause of civil rights — it was an HBCU graduate, Thurgood Marshall of Howard University, who tried the landmark Brown v. Education before the Supreme Court in 1954.

The numbers of young people graduating has shot up thanks to a host of «equity» focused reforms, such as re-engagement programs, the turnaround of chronically struggling districts, and strong regulation of traditional public and charter schools, wrought under a landmark Massachusetts Education Act.

Even graduates of the worst public schools know about the landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases Plessey vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. The Board of Education.