The End of Affirmative Action?
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Data from San Francisco show that disadvantaged students need academic support, not affirmative action in school admissions.
Regardless of what the Supreme Court decides this fall on racial preferences, colleges can help prospective students make better-informed decisions about their chances of success.
A Virginia high school earned legal rebuke for its race-conscious admissions policy, but schools that keep quiet may get away with similar behavior.
The Supreme Court has a chance to end racial discrimination in university admissions.
Thomas Jefferson High School is among the schools trying to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ban on race-based admissions.
Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t undermine his own opinion in one sentence.
Affirmative action carried a stigma for black and Hispanic students that should now, thankfully, subside.
Defenders of racial preferences argue that they are essential to black advancement—the facts demonstrate otherwise.
A methodological lesson from the Students for Fair Admissions data
After the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, law schools belatedly (and unconvincingly) assert the importance of viewpoint diversity.
Affirmative action is dead, but the fight for equal educational opportunity persists.
The Supreme Court has advanced the cause of merit over racial discrimination.
Discrimination in university admissions is legally dead, at last.
While the Supreme Court has swept away affirmative action, universities still intend to practice preferential admissions by using proxies for race.
The Supreme Court’s decision will end racial preferences as we know them—but what comes next is up to college administrators and future courts.
A federal appeals court ruling on admissions at a prestigious Virginia high school could have major implications for future court fights over affirmative action.
Affirmative action’s days may finally be numbered.
Boston’s short-lived experiment with regional quotas for exam schools is a tactic that progressives will likely revisit in a post-affirmative-action country.
A grassroots coalition challenges the mainstream media narrative of their support for affirmative action.
Harvard and UNC’s arguments rely on a dubious conflation of two distinct concepts: racial diversity and racial balancing.
With the Supreme Court seemingly poised to strike down the policy, why are some on the right skeptical about what comes next?
Oral argument in the Supreme Court affirmative-action case suggests that the precedent undergirding racial preferences is likely to fall.
Supreme Court justices seem inclined to ban racial preferences in higher ed, but schools will seek workarounds.
As the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in two affirmative action cases, Harvard’s president virtue-signals in an email blast.
A past Samuel Alito dissent may anticipate the Supreme Court’s reasoning in this summer’s affirmative-action cases.
Why it’s important for Students for Fair Admissions to win its discrimination case against Harvard
A new survey of young Americans vindicates the fears of CRT’s critics.
Harvard’s own freshman survey data undermine one of its justifications for affirmative action.
Defending its race-based admissions, the college attempts to appeal to originalists on the Supreme Court.
Data from San Francisco show that disadvantaged students need academic support, not affirmative action in school admissions.
Regardless of what the Supreme Court decides this fall on racial preferences, colleges can help prospective students make better-informed decisions about their chances of success.
A Virginia high school earned legal rebuke for its race-conscious admissions policy, but schools that keep quiet may get away with similar behavior.
The Supreme Court has a chance to end racial discrimination in university admissions.
Thomas Jefferson High School is among the schools trying to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ban on race-based admissions.
Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t undermine his own opinion in one sentence.
Affirmative action carried a stigma for black and Hispanic students that should now, thankfully, subside.
Defenders of racial preferences argue that they are essential to black advancement—the facts demonstrate otherwise.
A methodological lesson from the Students for Fair Admissions data
After the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, law schools belatedly (and unconvincingly) assert the importance of viewpoint diversity.
Affirmative action is dead, but the fight for equal educational opportunity persists.
The Supreme Court has advanced the cause of merit over racial discrimination.
Discrimination in university admissions is legally dead, at last.
While the Supreme Court has swept away affirmative action, universities still intend to practice preferential admissions by using proxies for race.
The Supreme Court’s decision will end racial preferences as we know them—but what comes next is up to college administrators and future courts.
A federal appeals court ruling on admissions at a prestigious Virginia high school could have major implications for future court fights over affirmative action.
Affirmative action’s days may finally be numbered.
Boston’s short-lived experiment with regional quotas for exam schools is a tactic that progressives will likely revisit in a post-affirmative-action country.
A grassroots coalition challenges the mainstream media narrative of their support for affirmative action.
Harvard and UNC’s arguments rely on a dubious conflation of two distinct concepts: racial diversity and racial balancing.
With the Supreme Court seemingly poised to strike down the policy, why are some on the right skeptical about what comes next?
Oral argument in the Supreme Court affirmative-action case suggests that the precedent undergirding racial preferences is likely to fall.
Supreme Court justices seem inclined to ban racial preferences in higher ed, but schools will seek workarounds.
As the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in two affirmative action cases, Harvard’s president virtue-signals in an email blast.
A past Samuel Alito dissent may anticipate the Supreme Court’s reasoning in this summer’s affirmative-action cases.
Why it’s important for Students for Fair Admissions to win its discrimination case against Harvard
A new survey of young Americans vindicates the fears of CRT’s critics.
Harvard’s own freshman survey data undermine one of its justifications for affirmative action.
Defending its race-based admissions, the college attempts to appeal to originalists on the Supreme Court.
Data from San Francisco show that disadvantaged students need academic support, not affirmative action in school admissions.
Regardless of what the Supreme Court decides this fall on racial preferences, colleges can help prospective students make better-informed decisions about their chances of success.
A Virginia high school earned legal rebuke for its race-conscious admissions policy, but schools that keep quiet may get away with similar behavior.
The Supreme Court has a chance to end racial discrimination in university admissions.