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	<description>&#34;Race has no place in American Life or Law&#34;</description>
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		<title>Larry Purdy on &#8216;Affirmative Action for the Future&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a re-post from the Pope Center, written by Larry Purdy:
For many years I have been immersed in the debate over “affirmative action” or, to be more precise, race preference admission policies employed by many elite colleges and universities. Thus, I was curious whether a new book favoring such preferences would advance new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Journal on Racial Disparities</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/03/16/wall-street-journal-on-racial-disparities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/03/16/wall-street-journal-on-racial-disparities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Achievement Gap]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I blogged about the Department of Education&#8217;s bold new plan to reduce racial academic achievement and suspension/expulsion gaps. Among other things, the department will send letters to certain school districts and state-supported colleges letters, putting them on notice about potential &#8216;civil rights&#8217; investigations to determine whether minorities have equal access to Advanced Placement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Racism&#8217; in the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/03/12/racism-in-the-21st-century/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/03/12/racism-in-the-21st-century/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the late 1960s, college students rioted and stormed administration buildings, protesting everything from the Vietnam War to freedom of speech violations to the paucity of black students, faculty and programs on campuses. If you were around then and thought some, most or all of those protests were over-the-top, you might want to add the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Equal Outcomes</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/03/09/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-equal-outcomes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/03/09/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-equal-outcomes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Achievement Gap]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hypothetically speaking, if racial minorities are more likely to commit &#8220;expellable&#8221; offenses in school, doesn&#8217;t it follow that racial minorities will be expelled disproportionately to their numbers? 
Let&#8217;s say whites and Asians with the aptitude to take Advanced Placement classes in fact take those classes, and blacks and Hispanics (assuming they have the aptitude &#8211; no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ward Connerly to Review Students&#8217; Race-Based Demands</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/03/08/ward-connerly-to-review-students-race-based-demands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/03/08/ward-connerly-to-review-students-race-based-demands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ward Connerly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on a column about the controversy brewing at UC San Diego since last month. A group of white UCSD students held an off-campus &#8220;ghetto&#8221;  party that offended some blacks, and a student-run TV station used a racial slur. Consequently, the students have come up with a list of race-based &#8220;demands&#8221; for the school. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Bauerlein on BAMN</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/03/04/mark-bauerlein-on-bamn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/03/04/mark-bauerlein-on-bamn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University and author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (or, Don&#8217;t Trust Anyone Under 30), commented on the BAMN lawsuit I blogged about last week.
BAMN is trying to overturn a California law that bars the government from discriminating against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wake County School Board Votes on Busing</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/02/26/wake-county-school-board-votes-on-busing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/02/26/wake-county-school-board-votes-on-busing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Wake County School Board in North Carolina is one of many government school systems that factor in socio-economic status when assigning students to spread the races across the district. Under the plan, students are bused to schools outside their neighborhoods, a practice that appears unpopular among parents of all races.
Those who oppose busing students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge: Ban Hoodies, Curb Violence</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/02/25/judge-ban-hoodies-curb-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/02/25/judge-ban-hoodies-curb-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I blogged about the brouhaha at South Philadelphia High School (a school designated &#8220;persistently dangerous&#8221;), where groups of mostly black students beat up students of Asian descent. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund filed suit against the school district, alleging &#8220;deliberate and discriminatory indifference.&#8221; The district suspended about 10 students.
The group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affirmative Action Needs a Makeover</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/02/24/affirmative-action-needs-a-makeover/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/02/24/affirmative-action-needs-a-makeover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What more needs to be said about this Newsweek article on racial preferences that John Rosenberg hasn&#8217;t said?
But I think I can manage a few comments.
In Newsweek, writer Raina Kelley makes a valiant attempt to re-frame the &#8220;affirmative action&#8221; debate to give it what she apparently believes is a much-needed makeover. What Kelley and others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Firefighters Case Before Supreme Court</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/02/23/chicago-firefighters-case-before-supreme-court/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2010/02/23/chicago-firefighters-case-before-supreme-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>La Shawn Barber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case filed by black firefighter applicants, who claim that a pencil-and-paper multiple choice employment test is discriminatory because black applicants disproportionately scored too low to qualify for employment in 1995.
Specifically, the plaintiffs claim the city used an unlawful score cutoff point. Those who scored 64 or [...]]]></description>
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