March 26, 2008

Researchers Bemoan Lack of Progress in Closing Education Gaps Between the Races

By Peter Schmidt

New York

Gloom filled a room here on Tuesday as affirmative-action advocates and researchers assessed progress toward closing the gaps that have left many colleges relying on race and ethnicity-conscious admissions policies to enroll black and Hispanic students.

The panel discussion, staged as part of the American Educational Research Association's annual conference, examined trends in education access over the past 30 years and used them as a basis for estimating where the nation will

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