Affirmative Action: Equal Opportunity or Neither?

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This is an analysis of affirmative action, race, public policy and education at the secondary and higher educational levels. Although it is written from an educational perspective, this paper also weighs heavily in terms of social and political policy. It discusses the two major events in the recent history of education. In 1995 the Board of Regents of the University of California system voted to "stop admitting students, hiring professors, and awarding contracts on the basis of race." In April of 2001, the Fifth Circuit Court handed down a decision in a case challenging the legitimacy of affirmative action based admissions practices at the University Of Texas Law School.

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"While educators have spent the last several years debating issues of quality and accountability in schooling, two fairly recent events have focused at least some attention on the issue of equality in education. In the summer of 1995 the Board of Regents of the University of California system voted to "stop admitting students, hiring professors, and awarding contracts on the basis of race." The announcement that all affirmative action considerations would be removed from the largest state system of higher education caused an immediate public outcry. In April of 2001, the Fifth Circuit Court handed down a decision in a case challenging the legitimacy of affirmative action based admissions practices at the University Of Texas Law School. It stated, effectively, that race might not be considered as a factor in the admissions process."

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