Affirmative Action | Affirmative Action Harms Minority Students
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution in Stanford, California.
Summary: In the past, affirmative action programs often placed good, but illprepared, minority students in elite schools for the sake of diversity. These students, who were capable of excelling in good colleges, were transformed into failures by being placed in high-pressure schools where only the most exemplary students can succeed. Since the elimination of affirmative action in the University of California system, minority students have been redistributed to respectable...
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