This week's Chronicle of Higher Education offers a special section examining college admissions. One essay is rather peculiar. In it, the author, a Swarthmore psychology professor, suggests that...
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I bet Larry Summers wishes he never attended the NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce last month. At the very least, he no doubt regrets his comments about...
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According to one UCLA law professor, it does. Richard Sander, writing in the Stanford Law Review, recently suggested that affirmative action causes black students to enroll in law schools beyond their...
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(Source: Yale University)According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, last fall's freshman class at Yale topped the Ivies in terms of black enrollments. Just under 10 percent were...
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Check out this article in the Boston Globe on Lloyd Thacker and his organization, Education Conservancy, a "non-profit organization committed to improving college admission processes for...
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