... Rights Act of 1964. This amendment was the guidance that American leaders needed to change the policies under which schools, business and local state and federal government adopted a new era and developed new strategies in which "business" was conducted. In 1972 the Equal Employment Opportunity Act was implemented. Hiring and promotion of minorities has shown tremendous increase since this act was ... recognized and the courts ruled unconstitutional to use a quota system. This ruling still provided a good opportunity to attract a diverse student body, but many minorities were not making...

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... preferential treatment and insults anyone who is beneficiary of this practice" (Jenkins, 1999, 178). Affirmative action in educational facilities promotes a feeling a reverse discrimination in which whites and Asians with higher SAT scores and grades are denied an education at a prestigious school to fulfill a quota of minorities (Williams, 1997, 173). Affirmative action is not only disappointing in creating equality in schools, it ... of affirmative action over thirty years ago, not much progress has been made. Perhaps the best solution to this dilemma is to abolish the policy of affir...

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... equally qualified candidates. This is the ideal situation and most common throughout the United States. Selection among comparably qualified candidates is as follows: a minority student with an 1100 on their SAT's compared to a white student who scored a 1120 is hardly a significant amount. Predictions of the general population with scores comparable in this range will not be affected by such trivial differences ... : Cornell University Press 1991. Forman Jr., J. Saving Affirmative Action. Academic Search Premier. Nation, 12/9/91, Vol. 253 Issue 20, p746, 2p Reverse Discrimination of whi...

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