It's been more than a year since the Supreme Court ended affirmative action, and the enrollment of Black students is down at elite colleges. Scott White, former director of guidance at Montclair High School in New Jersey, and a freelance writer for Forbes on college admissions, joins CBS New...
Role models and arguments for affirmative action - Chung - 2000Chung, K.-S. (2000): "Role Models and Arguments for Affirmative Action," Ameri- can Economic Review, vol. 90, no. 3., 640--648.Role Models and Arguments for Affirmative Action - Chung - 2000...
playing field is not level, and that providing advantages for minorities and women is fair considering the discrimination those groups tolerated for years. This paper will discuss the history of affirmative action, how it is implemented in society today, and evaluate the arguments that it presents....
In California, the ban on affirmative action at public universities imposed more than 25 years ago had little positive impact for Asian Americans. Asian American and white students may have been marginally more likely to get into their first choice of college versus their second choice after t...
Opponents reply that these benefits hide the real harm done by affirmative action: rewarding the wrong people, devaluing the idea of merit, and punishing white men. The two sides disagree on what should be done, yet there is no shortage of ideas. In the 1990s, a flurry of arguments have ...
51K views Arguments in Favor The primary argument in support of affirmative action is its potential to increase diversity in the workforce while reducing discrimination against certain demographic groups or minority groups. Proponents argue that if affirmative action helps minority groups enter or rise...
One of the arguments against Affirmative Action was that preferences towards minorities and women produced the effect of “reverse discrimination” against white males. In the 1979 United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC v. Weber case, the Supreme Court ruled that the private sector could apply...
In another concurrence, Justice Kavanaugh opined that “the Court’s decision today appropriately respects and abides byGrutter’s explicit temporal limit on the use of race-based affirmative action in higher education.” Focused on Higher Education ...
Interview: Lani Guinier and Roger Clegg discuss the affirmative action arguments now being heard by the US Supreme Court regarding admissions policies at colleges and universitiesTAVIS SMILEY
Answer to: Take a position, pro or con, on the following statement and discuss: Affirmative action has outlived its usefulness as an employment...