Education
Education Program grantees Soledad O’Brien Productions, in collaboration with The Hechinger Report, an independent nonprofit news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, recently published a series of articles and a short documentary highlighting the impact of the Supreme Court ruling on race-based affirmative action in college admissions.
The first entry of The Hechinger Report series focuses on TeenSHARP, a nonprofit that prepares students from underrepresented backgrounds for higher education. The second entry highlights the Rodriguez family and two sisters on the opposite sides of history: Ashley, who was admitted to college when schools in many states could still consider race, and her younger sister Emily, who is a senior applying to college after the decision. Soledad O’Brien Productions produced a short documentary that compliments the two pieces and examines the fog of uncertainty for students and administrators, who say the decision threatens to unravel decades of progress.
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