January 18, 2008
Scholars Mount Sweeping Effort to Measure Effects of Affirmative Action in Higher Education
The affirmative-action programs at the nation's public colleges and professional schools are about to undergo a kind of scrutiny they have long managed to avoid: intensive research that examines whether they actually help the minority students who are their intended beneficiaries.
A national consortium of about 20 professors and 10 graduate students has been collecting student data from colleges, law schools, and state bar associations — typically by invoking state
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