... settings, which brought networking opportunities that had been previously closed to them (Byrd-Chichester 21). Even though it is clear many students have benefited from the desegregation policy, standard test scores for African Americans continue to lag behind their white counterparts. In addition, studies indicate that the number of African Americans obtaining degrees has only slightly increased. In 1976, 8.3% ... Health, Education, and Welfare reported in their 1966, "Report on Equal Educational Opportunity," that family background and student attitudes explained far more of the varia...

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... get in based on how smart they are, not the color of their skin. You can tell the difference between students admitted purely on their scores and those helped by their race. The kids from the quotas are kind of not as smart, some of them." This statement seems to portray ... 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 al...

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... affirmative action at Berkeley because it was mainly helping middle class minorities, who had equivalent or similar resources of[to] a middle class white student, get into the university with lower SAT scores. He feels this process is unfair. He argues that Blacks have made such a great advancement since the 1960's that the majority of African-Americans are not disadvantaged anymore. Therefore, ... so that a broad coalition can support them- (Wilson). Wilson argues that there is a better way to open opportunity for minorities. He calls it, "affirmative opportunity."" Wilson states: These...

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... in reverse. In colleges across the country, African-Americans and Hispanics are being admitted at the expense of Caucasians and Asians with higher standardized test scores and high school GPAs for the sake of diversity. This discrimination is unjust and uncalled for. A second idea against affirmative action is the idea ... 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 ove...

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... other places of employment; and 83% say they were never turned down for a job in favor of a man. These are from a 1992 New York Times Women's Survey (Quigly). In California, the issue of affirmative action is one of the most controversial. Asian students at the University of ... lowered for blacks who represent 12% of the population and have 30% of the county jobs (Bresler). Due to this inequality of representation, new tensions have risen between the two groups. Previous to the passing of the California initiative named Proposition 209 in November 1996, Californian government agencies ...

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