Author: United States. Office of Education. Division of Higher Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Higher Education in South Dakota
Author: United States. Office of Education. Division of Higher Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Mismatch
Author: Richard Sander
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465030017
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law professor Richard Sander and legal journalist Stuart Taylor offer a definitive account of what affirmative action has become, showing that while the objective is laudable, the effects have been anything but. Sander and Taylor have long admired affirmative action's original goals, but after many years of studying racial preferences, they have reached a controversial but undeniable conclusion: that preferences hurt underrepresented minorities far more than they help them. At the heart of affirmative action's failure is a simple phenomenon called mismatch. Using dramatic new data and numerous interviews with affected former students and university officials of color, the authors show how racial preferences often put students in competition with far better-prepared classmates, dooming many to fall so far behind that they can never catch up. Mismatch largely explains why, even though black applicants are more likely to enter college than whites with similar backgrounds, they are far less likely to finish; why there are so few black and Hispanic professionals with science and engineering degrees and doctorates; why black law graduates fail bar exams at four times the rate of whites; and why universities accept relatively affluent minorities over working class and poor people of all races. Sander and Taylor believe it is possible to achieve the goal of racial equality in higher education, but they argue that alternative policies -- such as full public disclosure of all preferential admission policies, a focused commitment to improving socioeconomic diversity on campuses, outreach to minority communities, and a renewed focus on K-12 schooling -- will go farther in achieving that goal than preferences, while also allowing applicants to make informed decisions. Bold, controversial, and deeply researched, Mismatch calls for a renewed examination of this most divisive of social programs -- and for reforms that will help realize the ultimate goal of racial equality.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465030017
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law professor Richard Sander and legal journalist Stuart Taylor offer a definitive account of what affirmative action has become, showing that while the objective is laudable, the effects have been anything but. Sander and Taylor have long admired affirmative action's original goals, but after many years of studying racial preferences, they have reached a controversial but undeniable conclusion: that preferences hurt underrepresented minorities far more than they help them. At the heart of affirmative action's failure is a simple phenomenon called mismatch. Using dramatic new data and numerous interviews with affected former students and university officials of color, the authors show how racial preferences often put students in competition with far better-prepared classmates, dooming many to fall so far behind that they can never catch up. Mismatch largely explains why, even though black applicants are more likely to enter college than whites with similar backgrounds, they are far less likely to finish; why there are so few black and Hispanic professionals with science and engineering degrees and doctorates; why black law graduates fail bar exams at four times the rate of whites; and why universities accept relatively affluent minorities over working class and poor people of all races. Sander and Taylor believe it is possible to achieve the goal of racial equality in higher education, but they argue that alternative policies -- such as full public disclosure of all preferential admission policies, a focused commitment to improving socioeconomic diversity on campuses, outreach to minority communities, and a renewed focus on K-12 schooling -- will go farther in achieving that goal than preferences, while also allowing applicants to make informed decisions. Bold, controversial, and deeply researched, Mismatch calls for a renewed examination of this most divisive of social programs -- and for reforms that will help realize the ultimate goal of racial equality.
The Toolbox Revisited
Author: Clifford Adelman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Toolbox Revisited is a data essay that follows a nationally representative cohort of students from high school into postsecondary education, and asks what aspects of their formal schooling contribute to completing a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s. The universe of students is confined to those who attended a four-year college at any time, thus including students who started out in other types of institutions, particularly community colleges.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Toolbox Revisited is a data essay that follows a nationally representative cohort of students from high school into postsecondary education, and asks what aspects of their formal schooling contribute to completing a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s. The universe of students is confined to those who attended a four-year college at any time, thus including students who started out in other types of institutions, particularly community colleges.
School Architecture
Author: Henry Barnard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : School buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : School buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Higher Education in North Dakota
Author: United States. Office of Education. Division of Higher Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
State Higher Education Profiles
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
DHEW Obligations to Institutions of Higher Education and Other Nonprofit Organizations
Author: United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to higher education
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to higher education
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
DHEW Obligations to Institutions of Higher Education and Other Nonprofit Organizations
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Resources Analysis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to higher education
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to higher education
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Quarterly Journal - University of North Dakota
Author: University of North Dakota
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Vol. 1 includes "the installation of Frank Le Rond Mc Vey...as president of the University of North Dakota. Programs and proceedings." Called inauguration number, dated Sept. 1910.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Vol. 1 includes "the installation of Frank Le Rond Mc Vey...as president of the University of North Dakota. Programs and proceedings." Called inauguration number, dated Sept. 1910.
Resources in Education
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description