Sentences with phrase «on affirmative action policies»

Last week I was invited to speak at the annual conference of the Education Writers Association, with the topic of my panel being the perspective of Asian - Americans on Affirmative Action policies in college admissions.

To be specific, the case will consider the constitutionality of Michigan's Proposal 2, a voter - approved ban on affirmative action policies in Michigan universities, which was passed through a ballot vote in November 2006 with a margin of 58 — 42 percent.

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But surprisingly, the black conservatives overlook the fact that affirmative action policies were political responses to the pervasive refusal of most white Americans to judge black Americans on that basis.

Assistant Professor Natasha Warikoo, who recently wrote an L.A. Times op - ed about affirmative action, points out that although race - based affirmative action is still legal, universities can't rely solely on academic freedom to justify admissions policies.

The report, released by the American Council on Education last week, expresses optimism about the progress made by minority students, but argues that challenges to affirmative action and public skepticism about such policies «make it imperative» that colleges articulate the importance of racial and ethnic diversity...

Professor Gary Orfield is Professor of Education and Social Policy and founding Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University is the author of many books and articles on school desegregation and other civil rights issues and his work was cited by the Supreme Court in its recent decision on affirmative action.

Indeed, colleges and universities are even frequently evaluated on the racial, geographic, and socioeconomic diversity of each incoming class of students, and affirmative action policies in admissions are based on the rationale that the presence of campus diversity enriches the learning environment.

Texas created the policy in 1997 after a federal appellate court ruled, in Hopwood v. Texas, that the state's previous affirmative - action system based on racial preferences was unconstitutional.

«The research in Diversity Challenged shows that affirmative action policies have major benefits not only in overcoming the history of exclusion of minorities, but also in creating a richer educational experience for all students and injecting new ideas and understandings into discussions, debates and research on campus,» said Gary Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.

This was just the opening round of what is likely to be a long series of acrimonious debates over policy at the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, on topics including sexual harassment, affirmative action, instruction of English language learners and school discipline — even on who might head the agency.

Her research has investigated the roots of the political debates over race - conscious policies that profoundly affect meaningful opportunities for higher education, with a focus on the nature of persistent moral disagreement over affirmative action.

On October 15, Askwith Forums presented a discussion of the case before the United States Supreme Court concerning the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin and its implications for higher education.

Not only does this describe an uphill battle, but it serves to illustrate the puzzling priorities we often emphasize — one half of minority children don't complete high school, over one half of third graders can not read at grade level, and our policy and media attention are focused on affirmative action to achieve diversity in admissions as a compelling objective at our two flagship universities!

And many higher education groups have collected large amounts of evidence on the educational benefits of diversity in support of affirmative action policies.

Using administrative data from the UC from before and after the ban on race - contingent admissions policies, we present evidence that UC campuses changed the weight given to SAT scores, grades and family background characteristics after the end of affirmative action, and that these changes were able to substantially (though far from completely) offset the fall in minority admissions rate after the ban on affirmative action.

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In particular, your argumentative essay on affirmative action may open with the definition of affirmative action («a policy or program developed to counter discrimination against minority groups and women in areas such as employment and education»).

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