... , Arkansas, after the state's governor, George Wallace forcibly barred black children from entering white school. The government responded to those incidents by passing new laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Briggs, p.195). ... employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination (New York Times)". Although affirmative action is used to give people a greater opportunity, it has been seen that it w...

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... transformation was accomplished through a series of Orwellian distortions of the law, none of which has ever been ratified by the Congress."(Lund) In the years since, affirmative action in its new form has extended its reach to include groups not historically considered disadvantaged, at least in the same since that blacks were. What origonally was linked as a short term leg up ... institutions able to offer the very best black applicants a range of scholarships and other monies, soak up a huge portion of the relatively few blacks who score in the top range of the Scholastic Aptitude Te...

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... An example of this can be described by looking at the admittance records of the University of California at Berkeley. At Berkeley, blacks with an average score on the SATs of nine hundred and fifty-two were accepted into the college over whites that scored an average of twelve hundred and thirty-two and Asians ... with an average score of twelve hundred and fifty-four. As a result of this, two thousand white and Asian straight A students were turned away from the college to ... anyone who is beneficiary of this practice" (Jenkins, 1999, 178). Affirmative action in educational facilitie...

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... 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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... in admissions policies. In 1999 Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida put an end to affirmative action in his state's university admissions. In May of this year, Gov. Jeb Bush adopted a new law stating that school districts will no longer be able to use race as a factor in deciding which students can participate in gifted programs. His said it was "wrong to ... race. If you have lower standards for one group compared to another, you end up with lower results." A way out of the recent epidemic of low academic achievement and noncompetitive SAT scores due to affirmative action admissions policies is t...

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... B minus) or SATs over 830, well below the national average for all who took the test. Asians and whites, by contrast, needed a 3.8 GPA or an SAT above 1,200 to have better than 90% chance of admission [in 1996]" (Thernstrom). In 1997, the UCLA School of Medicine had over 5,000 applicants for only 200 ... the Asians and whites were 3.79 and 11.6, respectively compared with the average scores of the blacks and Hispanics as being 3.42 GPA and an MCAT score of 9.8 ("Being the right race..."). With just these two examples, one can see a pattern that is felt across the country. Just recently,...

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