Toward Affirmative Action for Economic Diversity

By RICHARD D. KAHLENBERG

When Lawrence H. Summers, president of Harvard University, recently announced a plan to deal with the barriers to economic diversity at Harvard, he put the spotlight

on higher education's dirty little secret: While colleges have admirably focused on creating racially integrated student bodies, they haven't given comparable help to economically...

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