Diversity Challenged: Evidence on the Impact of Affirmative Action - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1891792024 ISBN 13 : 9781891792021

Editeur : Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 2001

Synopsis

This book explores what is known about how increasing minority enrollment changes and enriches the educational process.

In the courts and in referenda campaigns, affirmative action in college admissions is under full-scale attack. Though it was designed to help resolve a variety of serious racial problems, affirmative action's survival may turn on just one question--whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in deciding whom to admit to colleges and universities. Diversity Challenged is designed to address that question.

In chapter after chapter, researchers and policymakers discuss substantial developing evidence showing that diversity of students can and usually does produce a broader educational experience, both in traditional learning and in preparing for jobs, professions, and effective citizenship in a multiracial democracy. The evidence also suggests that such benefits can be significantly increased by appropriate leadership and support on campus. Diversity may be challenged on college campuses today, but the research and evidence in this book shows how diversity works.

--From the Introduction by Gary Orfield

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gary Orfield is a professor of education, law, political science and urban planning, and codirector of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1891792024
• ISBN 13: 9781891792021
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Éditeur: Orfield Gary
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