February 13, 2013 COMMENTARY BY: Abby Grimshaw TOPICS: Education, Ensuring Fairness in College Admissions
October 3, 2012 COMMENTARY BY: Richard D. Kahlenberg, Halley Potter TOPICS: Education, Ensuring Fairness in College Admissions
The Supreme Court of the United States heard the Fisher v. Texas argument on October 10, 2012. The case could dramatically alter or eliminate race-based admissions policies at colleges and universities. In a new report, A Better Affirmative Action, Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg and Policy Associate Halley Potter look at solutions to racial preferences in Affirmative Action. Download here.
READ MOREFebruary 2, 2012 COMMENTARY BY: Suzanne Chang TOPICS: Education, Ensuring Fairness in College Admissions
As the United States seeks to restore its role as the world’s leader in higher education, there is a renewed emphasis on increasing graduation from two-year institutions. Most recently, President Barack Obama described the important role of community colleges in his State of the Union address.
READ MORESeptember 17, 2010 COMMENTARY BY: Richard D. Kahlenberg TOPICS: Education, Ensuring Fairness in College Admissions
The use of race-based affirmative action in higher education has given rise to hundreds of books and law review articles, numerous court decisions, and several state initiatives to ban the practice. By contrast, surprisingly little has been said or written or done to challenge a larger, longstanding “affirmative action” program that tends to benefit wealthy whites: legacy preferences for children of alumni.1 Like racial preferences, preferences for legacies can be criticized for being based on ancestry rather than individual merit, yet they offer none of the countervailing benefits of affirmative action, such as remedying past discrimination or promoting educational diversity.
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June 4, 2010 COMMENTARY BY: Anthony P. Carnevale, Jeff Strohl TOPICS: Education, Ensuring Fairness in College Admissions
This Chapter is excerpted from the June, 2010 book, Rewarding Strivers.
In the postindustrial economy, educational attainment, especially postsecondary educational attainment, has replaced the industrial concept of class as the primary marker for social stratification. In particular, in the post–World War II era, access to postsecondary education has become the salient mechanism driving access to middle-class earnings and status.
Our own analysis of data from the Current Population Survey (CPS)2 shows that high school dropouts and high school graduates who do not attain postsecondary education are losing their middle-class status.
READ MOREMarch 30, 2003 COMMENTARY BY: Anthony P. Carnevale, Stephen J. Rose TOPICS: Education, Ensuring Fairness in College Admissions, Workers & Economic Inequality, Poverty
Anthony Carnevale and Stephen Rose conclude that race-sensitive affirmative action policies should be retained and expanded to include low-income students.
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