November 29, 2002
Class-Rank Plans Fail to Increase Diversity, Federal Civil-Rights Officials Say
State plans that guarantee public-college admission to students who graduate at or near the top of their high-school classes are not themselves adequate to improve the representation of minority students at public colleges, according to a contentious staff report issued this month by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
The report, "Beyond Percentage Plans: The Challenge of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education," concludes that the academic-rank policies that have been put in place in
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