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New Affirmative Action Case at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is broadening its examination of affirmative action by adding a case about Michigan's effort to ban consideration of race in college...
Ballot Initiative of the Day: Will Oklahoma Ban Affirmative Action?
Last year Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma proposed State Question 759 also known as the Affirmative Action Ban Amendment to prohibit affirmative action policies...
Why We Still Need Affirmative Action
Right now the Supreme Court holds the fate of affirmative action in its hands and things don’t look good. Fisher v University of Texas at Austin pits a school...
Will Same-Sex Marriage Reach the Supreme Court?
There is hardly a political question in the U.S., Alexis de Tocqueville said, that does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. The Supreme Court‘s new...
Military Affirming College Affirmative Action
The Supreme Court is weighing just how much an applicant’s race can be taken into account when it comes to granting admission to the University of Texas. A...
What Asian Americans Reveal About Affirmative Action
As the Supreme Court prepare to reopen the issue of affirmative action, we can expect another fierce debate about whether college admissions should be color...
Is the Supreme Court Going to Kill Affirmative Action?
Last week the Supreme Court took a case that could dramatically scale back or even end affirmative action. In Fisher v. University of Texas, a white woman named...
How Affirmative Action Backfires at Universities
The Supreme Court announced last week that it would hear a challenge to the University of Texas’ use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions. Since the...
Class Notes: Affirmative Action, iPads in Class and More Education News
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Affirmative Action in College Admissions The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that for the first time since 2003 will...
To Modernize, Can Malaysia Move Beyond Race?
Malaysia is that rare country with an unequivocal national narrative. It goes something like this: Malaysia's 28 million people, comprising mainly Malays,...
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Recruiting Minority Students
Universities in states that have banned affirmative action reach out to disadvantaged communities to identify promising teenagers and get more of them into college. ...
In California, Diversity in College Starts Earlier
States that have outlawed affirmative action in college admissions, like California, are giving potential applicants a leg up to overcome disadvantages. ...
Affirmative Action: A Complicated Issue for Asian- Americans
Some see themselves as victims of affirmative action. Others as benefiting. ...
U. S. Supreme Court Is Urged to Rule on Michigan Affirmative- Action Case
Supporters of a voter-approved ban on racial preferences in admissions are challenging an appeals court's ruling that found the ban to be unconstitutional. ...
