September 15, 2008
Federal Panel Seeks Cause of Minority Students' Poor Science Performance
Washington
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which previously had called for research on whether affirmative-action preferences set minority law students up for failure, turned its attention on Friday to the question of whether disproportionate numbers of minority students leave science, technology, mathematics, and engineering because they are admitted to colleges where they cannot keep up.
Most of the experts who testified before the commission subscribed to the "mismatch" theory,
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