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Mismatch How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It


Free Download Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor Jr, "Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It"
English | 2012 | pages: 368 | ISBN: 0465029965 | EPUB | 1,4 mb
The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law professor Richard Sander and legal journalist Stuart Taylor offer a definitive account of what affirmative action has become, showing that while the objective is laudable, the effects have been anything but.

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