February 2010

Educational Diversity’s Elusive Benefits

February 9, 2010

Through the years, racial preference proponents have talked about the so-called benefits of diversity. Preferences benefit minorities by virtue of their being preferred over the majority and non-preferred minorities (people of Asian descent, for example). What’s difficult to assess is how campus diversity benefits non-preferred groups. In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Grutter [...]

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Roger Clegg on Disparate Impact in SOTU

February 4, 2010

Last month, the Department of Justice sued New Jersey and its Civil Service Commission for using an exam that “discriminates” against blacks and Hispanics, because these groups scored “statistically significantly lower” than whites. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez (pictured) said, “This complaint should send a clear message to all public employers that employment practices with [...]

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Walter Williams: We Need Diversity

February 2, 2010

I’d be remiss if I didn’t excerpt Walter Williams’s tongue-in-cheek column on Townhall, “We Need Diversity.” The obsession with diversity is focused on increasing the representation of racial minorities in any given arena. It almost never goes the other way. No one seriously demands that the NBA or NFL be more racially diverse. The only [...]

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Linda Seebach on Berkeley’s ‘White’ Science Labs

February 1, 2010

In a recent Townhall column, I wrote about the Berkeley High School Governance Council’s proposal to cut before- and after-school science labs and divert resources to “equity grants” to narrow the racial academic achievement gap The council called the gap at Berkeley, the widest in the state, “unconscionable.” At BigJournalism.com, Linda Seebach, formerly of Rocky [...]

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Update on Youngstown’s Two-List Hiring Policy

February 1, 2010

When last we blogged about Youngstown’s (Ohio) two-list hiring practice (one for whites, one for women and minorities) for policemen and firefighters, we mentioned that, to his credit, Mayor Jay Williams wanted the city to convert to one list. The city council was supposed to vote on the matter, but postponed the vote until members [...]

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