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Mismatch - How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It (Hardcover)
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Mismatch - How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It (Hardcover)
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The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades,
with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble
effort to jump-start racial integration many believe it devolved
into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with
the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail
the use of racial preferences in American universities, law
professor Richard Sander and legal journalist Stuart Taylor offer a
definitive account of what affirmative action has become, showing
that while the objective is laudable, the effects have been
anything but.Sander and Taylor have long admired affirmative
action's original goals, but after many years of studying racial
preferences, they have reached a controversial but undeniable
conclusion: that preferences hurt underrepresented minorities far
more than they help them. At the heart of affirmative action's
failure is a simple phenomenon called mismatch. Using dramatic new
data and numerous interviews with affected former students and
university officials of colour, the authors show how racial
preferences often put students in competition with far
better-prepared classmates, dooming many to fall so far behind that
they can never catch up. Mismatch largely explains why, even though
black applicants are more likely to enter college than whites with
similar backgrounds, they are far less likely to finish why there
are so few black and Hispanic professionals with science and
engineering degrees and doctorates why black law graduates fail bar
exams at four times the rate of whites and why universities accept
relatively affluent minorities over working class and poor people
of all races.Sander and Taylor believe it is possible to achieve
the goal of racial equality in higher education, but they argue
that alternative policies,such as full public disclosure of all
preferential admission policies, a focused commitment to improving
socioeconomic diversity on campuses, outreach to minority
communities, and a renewed focus on K-12 schooling ,will go farther
in achieving that goal than preferences, while also allowing
applicants to make informed decisions. Bold, controversial, and
deeply researched, Mismatch calls for a renewed examination of this
most divisive of social programs,and for reforms that will help
realize the ultimate goal of racial equality.
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