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Mismatch : how affirmative action hurts students it's intended to help, and why universities won't admit it

text Mismatch : how affirmative action hurts students it's intended to help, and why universities won't admit it

Sander, Richard Henry

Summary

Argues that affirmative action actually harms minority students and that the movement started in the late 1960s is only a symbolic change that has become mired in posturing, concealment, and pork-barrel earmarks.

Contents
I. Introduction. The idea of mismatch and why it matters ; A primer on affirmative action -- II. Stirrings of mismatch. The discovery of the mismatch effect ; Law school mismatch ; The debate on law school mismatch ; The breadth of mismatch -- III... Read more
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Description
xix, 348 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher
2012
MARC Permalink

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 379.26 SAN in Adult Non-fiction Available

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