Achievement Gap

CA Bar: Race Should Affect Law School Rankings

February 23, 2011

The National Law Journal reports that the State Bar of California believes U.S. News & World Report should take into account a law school’s percentage of brown faces on campus when compiling its annual list of overall law school rankings. The publication already compiles a separate diversity ranking list. A school’s quality assessment accounts for [...]

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A Response to CEO Study

February 22, 2011

In the plainest terms, racial preferences supporters believe our government should continue its race-based practices, in favor of certain minorities this time, given America’s history of slavery and Jim Crow, and present-day racial disparities. You’ll read and hear the euphemism diversity quite frequently. Dr. Andrew Grant-Thomas, preferences supporter, responded to the Center for Equal Opportunity’s [...]

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Linda Chavez on OSU/Miami Preferences Study

February 21, 2011

“As new figures from the Census tell us, the United States is becoming an increasingly racially and ethnically diverse nation — with a population that doesn’t fit neatly into the racial boxes constructed for ‘diversity’ purposes. So why is it that some universities and other institutions continue to use the old paradigm of granting preferences [...]

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Ohio State University Comments on Preferences Study

February 16, 2011

On Monday, I linked to and blogged about the Center for Equal Opportunity’s (CEO) recent study that showed the University of Miami and Ohio State University (OSU) admitted blacks with lower grades and scores than whites and Asians. In an interview with Roger Clegg about the study, an NBC4 reporter asked the following: “Ohio State [...]

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Racial Discrimination at Miami and Ohio State?

February 14, 2011

The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) has released a study that shows Ohio State University (OSU) and the University of Miami discriminate against whites and Asians in favor of blacks and Hispanics. According to CEO, the median SAT score at OSU for accepted blacks was 110 points lower than the median score for accepted whites. [...]

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More ‘Closing the Gap’ Recommendations

February 3, 2011

I believe as long as there are achievement gaps and other disparities between the races, the government will seek to maintain race-based preferences, set-asides, and entitlements, in some form or another. The government and the private sector have tried for decades to close the gap, but it seems intractable. Eric Cooper, president and founder of [...]

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Gaming the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan

January 11, 2011

Fourteen years ago, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that using racial preferences in college admissions even to achieve “diversity” was unconstitutional. Texas, bound by the ruling, adopted the Ten Percent Plan to increase skin color diversity in its colleges and universities without making explicit reference to race. Regardless of a high school’s academic [...]

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Long Live Racial Discrimination in Private Institutions

January 6, 2011

…as long as racial minorities are the beneficiaries of the discrimination. Right? William Chace, an author and former professor, expends 5,000 words at the The American Scholar to say private institutions should stem the tide against equal treatment and continue or start admitting individuals based on the color of their skin. As the law clearly [...]

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Civil Rights Commission Confirms Mismatch Theory

January 3, 2011

Gail Heriot, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, penned an op-ed about how “affirmative action” actually harms aspiring college students. According to a commission report released last month, affirmative action, or lowered standards for minorities, hurts a students chances of becoming a doctor, scientist, engineer. Sounds intuitive, doesn’t it? An excerpt of [...]

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Caltech’s Meritocracy

December 23, 2010

Princeton University’s Russell K. Nieli, author of the forthcoming book, Wounds that Will Not Heal: Affirmative Action and Our Continuing Racial Divide, revealed that students of Asian descent often receive no boost in admissions, unlike blacks and Hispanics, although they are racial minorities. In fact, admissions officers set the bar higher for these students. In [...]