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	<description>&#34;Race has no place in American Life or Law&#34;</description>
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		<title>Behavior and the Achievement Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In lamenting the achievement gaps between the races, researchers Reihan Salam and Tino Sanandaji discuss the work of James Heckman, an economics professor believes the key to narrowing the gaps lie in early childhood intervention. Specifically, the interventions should focus on instilling appropriate behavior among &#8220;disadvantaged&#8221; children, such as impulse control and following the rules. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asians and &#8216;Diversity&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s well documented that students of Asian descent are held to the highest standards in admissions. Most recently, Princeton professor Thomas Espenshade released a study that showed the extent of discrimination against these students at elite colleges. Judah Bellin, a senior at Cornell, writes: &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to deny that the admissions process is stacked against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John McWhorter on the Berkeley Bake Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Manhattan Institute&#8217;s John McWhorter has spoken out against what he considers a sub-cultural strain of anti-intellectualism among blacks. He also contended that some blacks, no matter how successful or untouched by racial discrimination, have an urge to keep &#8220;whitey on the hook,&#8221; to never let white people forget historical grievances. In a piece for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lowered Standards in Wisconsin</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/09/14/lowered-standards-in-wisconsin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberals love demonstrating their perverse idea of tolerance by shouting down or attacking conservatives on campuses and in the public square. Yesterday, a &#8220;diverse&#8221; group of protestors at the DoubleTree Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin, shut down a press conference about a study exposing the University of Wisconsin-Madison&#8217;s (UW-Madison) race-based admissions scheme. Roger Clegg, president and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four-Year, Race-Based Special Treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If schools factor race into admissions and financial aid decisions, why not factor race into grading? Although Mark J. Perry, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan at Flint and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, presents the idea tongue-in-cheek, it&#8217;s a valid question. Consider the following: &#8220;Before Proposal 2, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Briscoe&#8217;s Suit Goes Forward</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/08/17/michael-briscoes-suit-goes-forward/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/08/17/michael-briscoes-suit-goes-forward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may recall Michael Briscoe, a black New Haven firefighter suing the city for discrimination. He claimed the department&#8217;s promotions exam had a disparate impact on blacks, that giving more weight to the written part of the exam over the oral was a race-based disadvantage. The written portion was weighted 60 percent and the oral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Admissions, Race, and the Courts</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/08/02/admissions-race-and-the-courts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems inevitable that &#8220;affirmative action,&#8221; aka racial preferences, will return to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court&#8217;s eight-year-old decisions Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger haven&#8217;t stopped tax-supported schools from using broad preferences policies or the lower courts from rendering conflicting decisions. Part of the problem was the court&#8217;s capitulation in allowing tax-supported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court: Bar Exam Data Are Public Documents</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/06/14/court-bar-exam-data-are-public-documents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/06/14/court-bar-exam-data-are-public-documents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I told you that a three-judge panel of the First District Court of Appeal heard arguments in UCLA law professor Richard Sander&#8217;s quest to obtain racial and ethnic data from the California bar exam applicants. According to Law.com, Justice Stuart Pollak said, &#8220;The State Bar is providing a vital function here, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Sander Appeals to Judge Panel</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/06/07/richard-sander-appeals-to-judge-panel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UCLA law professor Richard Sander continues his quest to obtain racial and ethnic data on California bar exam applicants. Last week, a three-judge panel of the First District Court of Appeal heard arguments, and Law.com reports that &#8220;two justices… appeared ready to draw opposite conclusions. The third didn&#8217;t tip his hand.&#8221; Sander concluded in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Kahlenberg on Chace&#8217;s &#8216;Affirmative Action&#8217; Defense</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/05/31/richard-kahlenberg-on-chaces-affirmative-action-defense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/05/31/richard-kahlenberg-on-chaces-affirmative-action-defense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 15:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Chace&#8217;s defense of &#8220;affirmative action in The American Scholar is generating more comments. Chace calls on elite colleges and universities to increase their use of racial preferences, in light of voters barring their states from discriminating against or granting preferences to individuals or groups on the basis of race in employment, contracting, and education. [...]]]></description>
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