links for 2010-01-15

"The follow-up to a 2006 analysis of federal data concludes that 50 public flagships, one in each state, "continue to enroll students who are far richer and far whiter" than most in their states, says Kati Haycock, director of the non-profit Education Trust, which released both reports."

(tags: college admissions race)

"In Game Change, by journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Clinton is quoted complaining about Obama to Ted Kennedy: A few years back, Clinton said, this guy would be serving us coffee." The guy with degrees from Columbia and Harvard Law? The guy who made Law Review? The former senator from Illinois?

(tags: gamechanges politics racism)